Posted on 02/22/2005 6:56:50 PM PST by qam1
Putting the cart before the horse?
Wouldn't want to ruin your precious figures birthing your own babies now, would you girls?
My mother was a single mother of 2 because my father died very young.WE were pre-school when he died.
Why anyone would CHOOSE to raise a child alone is beyond me.
I found it hard and I stayed at home and had a hard working husband. I had it easy compared to my mother.
I don't get it!
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Hmmmm......
No one in China wants the baby girls but the Chinese are supposedly concerned about them going to single households?
Doesn't make much sense to me.
It's sad isn't it? :(
I agree, but it's not like these babies aren't in need of a good home. At least these women aren't producing children while single.
Once again the slogan of the Modern American Woman-"It's all about ME"
still, being raised by a self indulgent American is loads better than being warehoused in some Chinese orphanage...
I can imagine the routine: wake up, drop the baby off at daycare, go to work. Yeah, that's raising a child.
Having a father for your children isn't a good thing?
Really, the article is touting "super single moms" like it's the wave of the future, but what kind of minisule minority of families it this?
This is feminist mythology.
God yes,the babies are very lucky. It's just such hard work for a single mom.
wake up, drop the baby off at daycare, go to work, grandma picks up baby from daycare, grandma feeds baby, mom comes home too tired to play. No Daddy, hardly a mamma, but the kid has a a great day care.
Or better yet. Female children in China are being disposed of because of their sex. What's wrong with American women, no matter married or not, raising them?
The unfortunate thing about coming over here to China for adoption is that many times the babies are sick with various illnesses/diseases and it isn't disclosed or discovered until the child has already been adopted and taken into a home.
China does not permit adoptions by homosexuals, and unmarried people seeking to adopt from China must affirm that they are heterosexual. Since they know that this affirmation cannot be truly investigated, they use the singles quota to minimize adoptions by non-heterosexuals.
This is soooo selfish.
Can't find someone to marry them so adopts a little girl and cheats her out of a Daddy.
Study after study after study is clear - a little girl needs a Daddy too!
As a single woman who wants children, this same scenario has played itself over and over again. But I just can't do it. Why? Because I want my children to have what I didn't- a father and a family.
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