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- Jan 24, 2017
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After KS Boot, ‘Tinder for Adoption’ Is Now On Indiegogo Despite Community Outrage

Published January 24, 2017, on Observer.

UPDATE: Within hours of its Indiegogo launch, Adoptly's campaign on the platform has been suspended for review by the Trust and Safety team. Adoptly has yet to respond to our request for comment regarding this update.

There’s a new app that’s supposed to make adopting kids quick and easy. Like most startups, it’s targeting millennials. The tagline: “Parenthood is just a swipe away.”

Excerpt:

‘This is a complex process, not in order to lock anybody out, but to make sure they wind up in safe permanent homes’ —Adam Pertman

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