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“I say no one should be allowed to adopt kids from foreign countries unless and until all American kids are adopted. No exceptions.”
but snappy, that’s my point. The demand exceeds the supply in the US. There are no orphanages full of kids just waiting to be adopted. Why would anyone want to adopt a kid from Korea (just an example) when they could get a kid locally that looks like the adoptive parents? The answer is there are no kids locally.
If I’m wrong, pls prove it.
Denton, there are plenty of kids they’re just not the desirable ones. Special needs, older, behavioral issues.
I will agree with you though that the adoption process in this country seems to work against the best interests of the children. Would you care what race your parents were or if they were both men or women or god forbid a single parent so long as they loved you to pieces? Frankly, I think they’re just looking to be loved by someone who wants them.
There were so many awful aspects to pregnancy back then. I had 2 friends who almost died & couldn’t have kids after a back-room procedure. Another girl killed herself. A few kept the babies but their lives were thrown to bits & families of some shunned them. Choice has made a massive difference – as, of course, has the change from its being a stigma to be a single parent.
denton, you’re right about racial politics and adoption in this country. Big minefield that one.
I say no one should be allowed to adopt kids from foreign countries unless and until all American kids are adopted. No exceptions.
sure etson. Abortion and gun control. And meatballs.
I like Sedaris but sometimes I think he’s a bit too clever for his own good. Have you read any Augusten Burroughs?
“There is no shortage of children who are in need of homes in this, or any other, country. ”
THL, you sure about that? Seems that there is a shortage of adoptable kids in this country, or so I’ve heard. Between social mores changing and a lot of kids aborting, and a lot of other kids keeping their children, racial politics, religious politics that will only allow perfect families to adopt, and so on, isn’t this what forces people to go overseas to adopt? Where of course they are treated like cash cows.
Since we have been discussing books today, I read a real eye-opener and truly heart-rending book not too long ago. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Row vs. Wade. Ann Fessler.
About back in the day when pregnant girls were ‘sent away’, mainly to church-run shelters, where their babies were taken away, often forcefully, and given up for adoption. The girls generally were shattered and had their lives destroyed. Every one spent their life trying to find their child. Fortunately most succeeded.
Check it out.
for christmas one year, jon and kate got the kids BIBLE ACTION FIGURES. that is just wack.