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”.
Anytime anyone has or adopts a child part of it is selfish, whether they are married or single. Most of us want some kind of satisfaction out of even the most altruistic actions we engage in, even if it is a personal satisfaction known only to us.
Too many couples have taken the approach Bill and Hillary Clinton did—talking up adoption, toying with the idea, but in the end not doing it. And they like so many other couples could well afford to adopt a needy child. But they didn’t, and it is because of their selfishness. They don’t want to share their time, money, resources, or their life with a needy child. Until more couples step up and do the right thing, there will be children in those orphanages.
I am sure Laura will lose listeners, and perhaps it would be better for you to just step away from the radio dial, find someone else to listen to.
Anytime anyone has or adopts a child part of it is selfish, whether they are married or single. Most of us want some kind of satisfaction out of even the most altruistic actions we engage in, even if it is a personal satisfaction known only to us.
Too many couples have taken the approach Bill and Hillary Clinton did—talking up adoption, toying with the idea, but in the end not doing it. And they like so many other couples could well afford to adopt a needy child. But they didn’t, and it is because of their selfishness. They don’t want to share their time, money, resources, or their life with a needy child. Until more couples step up and do the right thing, there will be children in those orphanages.
I am sure Laura will lose listeners, and perhaps it would be better for you to just step away from the radio dial, find someone else to listen to.