Posted on 11/17/2004 4:49:06 AM PST by jb6
Adoption (especially foreign) has turned into quite a racket.
You're welcome. Since single parent adoption is legal in all 50 states, you're good to go. The first step is to stop lying to yourself.
Actually, Askel, you've creeped me out enough that I'm going to stop trying to convince you that adoption's for you. I hope you don't do it, and since I have no interest in meeting you at your level in the rest of this discussion, I'll leave you to your keyboard.
For anyone else that might click on this thread, and is interested in adoption, please FReepmail me. Askel doesn't have a clue what she's talking about regarding costs and requirements to adopt.
=== Since single parent adoption is legal in all 50 states,
I'll be damned. So is abortion! That'll come in handy should I end up getting pregnant after all and find myself saddled with a Defective whose name the government will want for their Database. After all, who in their right mind wants to have (or adopt) a kid with "strings" who might be a hassle?
=== The first step is to stop lying to yourself.
That fathers are critical? That's the Big Lie under which I'm operating? The fact it's not my "right" to have a kid with or without a father?
=== Askel doesn't have a clue what she's talking about regarding costs and requirements to adopt.
Please don't give the impression that this wholly unsubstantiated statement applies to the FACT the government's only giving out tax breaks to those who adopt Foreign or other than "Special Needs" kids.
It's critically important that the same state who gifted you the right to prevent, procure or abort children as you see fit has certain Standards it applies when using tax credits to encourage one form of adoption over another.
Hasnt American adoption of Russian children been halted? I have a friend who is in the process of adopting a child from China and she showed me the sheet of countries where adoptions were accepted by the US. Russia was one of them.
Typical of today's society, having or getting a child for their OWN gain, not the childs. Civilization is based upon a father AND a mother. That is why God made each sex unique and different. You can not stop lying to yourself.
God Bless your convictions.
No tax cuts for adopting "special needs" kids.
Of course not, in the eyes of the state, this will cost them money. How do I know this, just check my tag line. They are cutting services or totally elimintating them so we can have new bike paths, etc. Special needs to the state means special shafting.
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It is best for a child to have a mother and father, but it also better to have a mother than no parent at all. While you don't see widows with children much anymore, it used be a common occurance. Those women raised their children alone and did the best they could.
Preach all you want. Children suffer without any parents while you do.
It is best for a child to have a mother and father, but it also better to have a mother than no parent at all. While you don't see widows with children much anymore, it used be a common occurance. Those women raised their children alone and did the best they could.
Preach all you want, but orphaned children suffer without any parents while you judge.
Sorry for the double post. I thought the first one got lost.
Your argument is flawed. They did not choose to be widows, but your mom is CHOOSING to be single. A child needs two parents, a mother and father. Not a gay couple either.
But if the choice is no mom or just a mom, I would prefer a child with a mom. But you must still ask yourself, is she doing it for her own benefit or the childs.
Get back to me when you've educated yourself more. Then see if you can tell me that a child is better off starving to death alone in a room than being adopted by one parent.
Actually we have looked into foreign adoption, then we had our son. So your wrong there.
Get back to me when you've educated yourself more.
We have several friends who have adopted from all over the world, so your wrong again.
Then see if you can tell me that a child is better off starving to death alone in a room than being adopted by one parent.
Obviously you did not read my previous post in which I said
"But if the choice is no mom or just a mom, I would prefer a child with a mom. But you must still ask yourself, is she doing it for her own benefit or the childs."
This is bizarre. It's more expensive to adopt a child in Russia than it is to go through this country social services?
Every child is a wanted child. I do believe the government beauracracy can be its own worst enemy.
"Looked into" is not doing, so you haven't adopted a child.
I'm sure the "several friends" you speak of are married couples. I don't think a single mom would feel very welcome around you.
If you think a single woman is only adopting for selfish reasons, I don't even know where to start, so I won't.
See ya.
I don't know where you get your lies. We took a larger tax cut, much larger actually, for our third Russian adoption in 1997, for a special needs child.
Thanks, and I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post as well.
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