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To: writmeister
No, it is you who is not making sense.

I never suggested that married people are being turned down. Orphaned girls or boys should ONLY be adopted by MARRIED, HETEROSEXUAL couples. Can I be any clearer?

To allow a single woman to adopt a girl will only add one more statistic to an already PREDICTIBLE future that is NOT healthy for the child. Girls and boys NEED a DAD too.


I know, lets look down on kids who are unwanted and give them out to whoever wants them. Never mind that you are NOT doing them ANY favors. A single woman, who NO male wants will NOT be as asset for an adopted child. It will be housed away in daycare ... because she "has to work" and she really is ABOVE that stuff ... so what have you gained? NOTHING.

All you've done is add to the child's problems for sheer SELFISH REASONS. Yes, on the weekend she can wear her child as an ornament on her arm so she FEELS good about herself.

You're really not thinking straight. From your "logic" a gay male or a lesbian should also be acceptable. It's no wonder that MANY kids are soo screwed up and you want to repeat the scenario with adopted kids who already have a few strikes against them. What child wants to face the fact that NO ONE, in her/his family wanted them? They'll always wonder about them. We are simply NOT going to agree on this so we might as well stop replying to one another.
379 posted on 02/24/2005 11:16:09 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh
"You're really not thinking straight."

That's a real hoot, coming from you.

In addition to your incredibly mean statements about women that haven't married, you seem intent on remaining ignorant of issues regarding Chinese adoption. Since there are other folks out there that might actually want to be informed, I'll address a couple of your points for them:

"It's no wonder that MANY kids are soo screwed up and you want to repeat the scenario with adopted kids who already have a few strikes against them. What child wants to face the fact that NO ONE, in her/his family wanted them?"

The idea that a child wasn't wanted by anyone in their birth family is not correct. Not everyone can raise a child that's been born to them, no matter how much they want to do so....especially in China with the one child policy that's been in place for so long. Many of these girls would have been raised by their families if that didn't exist. Instead, parents have been tortured, forcibly sterilized, their homes demolished, they've been fined enormous amounts of money, and any of their children born without a permit have no rights to an education, among other things. In one case, a child born outside the birth quota was drowned in a rice paddy (in front of his parents) by local birth control officials. Living safely in the US, it's hard to imagine living under such a brutal system.

" It will be housed away in daycare ... because she "has to work" and she really is ABOVE that stuff ... so what have you gained? NOTHING."

The idea that being sent to daycare in the US is somehow equivalent to living in a third world orphanage is ludicrous. Mortality rates of Chinese orphanages in the 90's were regularly estimated to be at least 80%. See The Dying Rooms for more detail about this.

"I know, lets look down on kids who are unwanted and give them out to whoever wants them. "

Anyone applying to adopt has to undergo rigorous interviews with social workers. You're fingerprinted and checked by the FBI and Interpol. Not just anyone can adopt.

380 posted on 02/24/2005 1:32:37 PM PST by Artist
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