I’m not sure how much is known about international adoption, but couples are not standing in line to adopt three year old girls from third world orphanages. They just aren’t. They want infants. They want children who haven’t been traumatized by institutionalization.
In my opinion Ingraham was speaking about the ideal situation, which is the traditional nuclear family. Even those who have adopted recognize that the ideal for children is a happy and loving traditional birth family—so the child is already not getting the ideal just by reason of being adopted—never mind that they aren’t being clamored over by couples who could offer them a home.
I think we should come together and promote adoption (as our government has started with the adoption tax credit) and encourage couples to open up their homes to the many many children who need homes.
Thank you for your rational, thoughtful, on topic comments which at least attempted to address my point.
I understand what you are saying and agree with much of it, but my point is that “its for the children” gets us in trouble all the time and this case is no different.
Yesterday was fathers day, and yet we live in a world were a scant 36 years after it was made a holiday it is being made obsolete by libs and socialists and now one of our own.
I think Laura was being selfish - yes selfish. Selfish as in “thinking about what she wanted”. Why? because saving this child was not the only thing n her mind. With her money and influence and reach if she wanted to save to child from an orphanage - I mean if helping the child was the sole goal (a noble one indeed) there were other things she could have done. But that was not the SOLE goal. Another motivation was HER desire for a child and that is why I am disappointed and have lost respect for her. She decided that the role of a father - a role SHE has called important as a part of the SUPERIOR traditional nuclear family is - unnecessary after all in her case. She’s special ya see.
She is basically saying “do as I say not as I do”.
Father’s are become an endangered species. She knows this. She has commented on it. But she decided to aid in the destruction of the role of fathers by doing this.
I’m happy that the girl is free of a 3rd world orphanage and will be raised in America. I am sad that she will not have a father - by choice. I am angry that once again fatherhood, as an institution, gets the shaft. I’m feel betrayed that this time the shaft is being handled by “one of our own”.