Posted on 04/09/2018 4:57:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I really don’t understand why people hate babies so much.
I can understand things like “I wasn’t prepared” “I’m not ready” “This will ruin my life”. The last one because a baby will ruin your life if you think that having a baby will ruin your life. And your life needs to be ruined and re-built anyway.
I m fairly sure if one of our daughters got pregnant out of wedlock, my wife and I would raise the child. I do not think I could ever get used to one of my grandchildren being “somewhere” else.
A family member adopted a child after being unable to conceive one of their own. It is a true blessing. Kelly did right and I pray the right man will come into her life. She deserves it.
What a great story. The real winners there are her parents. They could have destroyed that girl with one comment yet they chose to love her through a personal crisis and failure.
I remember listening to some guy talk about this on a Christian radio station. He said he and his wife were in bed when their daughter came in and told them she was pregnant.
He said he looked at her and said “I love you.”
Sometime later it changed to “Now, let’s work it out.”
She made the same choice of adoption.
Abortion is never a reasonable solution. Never. It kills the child and destroys the mother, and often the father.
I was surprised a faith-based adoption agency worked with “Shawn and Dave”, unless Shawn is a woman.
Amen.
None of that would have happened if she’d had the sense to keep her damn pants on. That sounds harsh, but the truth is not all unicorns and lollipops.
The studies of grandparents and single mothers raising children are pretty conclusive. It damages the child (lesser outcomes than children raised by 2 parents). What this mother did for her child was the greater love. She did what was best for the child.
“I really don’t understand why people hate babies so much.”
Propaganda that comes out of the glowing box.
“The last one because a baby will ruin your life if you think that having a baby will ruin your life. And your life needs to be ruined and re-built anyway.”
That’s the best thing I’ve read in quite a while! I’m using that! Do I owe you a royalty?
I know several women named “Shawn”.
Show the studies. Especially about grandparents.
Babies are great.
It makes no sense when women say that having a baby means that their life is over.
Having adopted a grandchild, I see another side not yet visited in these responses.
There is a “syndrome” called “Adoption Syndrome”. It occurs when the adopted child at 10-12 suddenly realizes according to his or her own definition of love, “My “mom” didn’t love me enough to keep me.” and then later, “Look, she’s had two more kids but I am not part of her family.” Then the the s..t* hits the fan and you all get on an emotional roller coaster ending in one form of disaster or another.
Social services and psychologists were absolutely no help. Maybe knowledge about this problem has increased in the last 35+ year.... Maybe there are forewarning signs we weren’t aware of.
I would never repeat the experience. Abortion is not an option even though our society seems to think it is O.K.
I think we need to teach boys and girls with visual teaching aids the consequences of promiscuity. And we must hold boys as accountable as the girls. No ands, ifs or buts.
I have a niggling suspicion that our lack of spirituality in the USA may be due to lack of love and respect for our progeny, intrauterine or extrauterine.
I’m pretty sure this Shawn is a woman. The event happened 10 years ago, well before the militant homosexuals achieved their foothold. As late as two years ago, per my brief internet search, Bethany Christian services was holding strong in only adopting to traditional married couples. I expect them to continue that.
Hey Freepers, on the pro-life side of things, the City of Baltimore has been suing and repeatedly losing to a pro-life women’s ministry. They have been trying to force the ministry to offer abortion referrals before their traditional pro-life counseling services and helping the mother keep or give up her baby for adoption.
A couple months ago, Baltimore lost in US Circuit Court of Appeals, so naturally they are taking it to the Supreme court. I know a couple of the lawyers on the pro-life team. If SCOTUS picks up the case, I expect the City will get absolutely destroyed by these guys.
I’m with you on that.
Ping
Did she get married?
I had 3 rules for my daughters in high school and I repeated them every time they’d go out at night
1. Don’t drink and drive
2. Don’t ride with someone that has been drinking
3. Keep your underpants on at all times.
They survived high school
I don’t know what era you’re from....
....but when I was growing up Judeo/Christian tenets were still in place in our country......and supported the church, parental structure and morals
...they aren’t now.....they’ve been replaced by a hedonistic, Godless society...
one that celebrates the culture of death...
...one that has allowed the murder of 60 million babies
Yes she got pregnant.....and against extreme societal pressure, she gave her baby life
Yes, it IS something to celebrate
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