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To: NucSubs

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.


154 posted on 06/16/2008 12:36:50 PM PDT by Burkean
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To: Burkean
I have already conceded to you the fact that of course you are right - more people should adopt. I also concede the child is probably better off in America in any capacity. You really have not addressed my point directly though (no one has).

How do you reconcile her actions and her words? More importantly, how do you think her actions affect the continued marginalization of fatherhood?

All of the rest is scenery, just canards and red herrings. My issue is with the affect that this statement by a female conservative has had on the institution of fatherhood

HOW can she ever again discuss the critical importance of fathers when she has created a fatherless family by the most deliberate method possible?

That is my question.

155 posted on 06/16/2008 12:51:13 PM PDT by NucSubs (Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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