Posted on 04/22/2005 5:07:49 AM PDT by sinkspur
After House passes measure, couple worry they'll lose four kids
Cheryl Crumley and Donna Sickles take their kids to Chuck E. Cheese's. They constantly wipe spit-up off their clothes and change poopy diapers. They go to church on Sundays.
"We're a normal family," Ms. Crumley said.
She and Ms. Sickles are terrified of losing their four foster children because the Texas House on Tuesday approved an amendment banning gays, lesbians and bisexuals from serving as foster parents. The Carrollton couple accelerated plans to adopt the 6-month-old girl in their care because of the decision.
"I don't understand what is so wrong about what we're doing," Ms. Crumley said Wednesday evening as she cradled the baby girl, who was born to a drug addict and went through withdrawal for weeks after birth. "It's mind-boggling."
Ms. Crumley and Ms. Sickles said they have provided a safe, loving home to about 25 foster children over the last two years, for stays that ranged from one week to 11 months.
All of the children suffered abuse and neglect in their own homes, often because of parental drug addictions. One baby needed skin grafts after being scalded in a bathtub. Some had gone hungry so often they hoarded food in their bedrooms. Others slept on the floor at first because that's what they were used to. The children often have developmental delays because of the abuse.
Ms. Crumley and Ms. Sickles now care for the 6-month-old girl, a 4-month-old boy, a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, whose names are not being published to protect their privacy.
"We would be devastated if we couldn't do this," Ms. Crumley said.
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/tongue in cheek (sort of)
(sarcasm) Look on the brightside, last year they considered homosexuals and homosexual couples to be no better than rapists, murderers and child molesters. Their views have actually improved.
What you said. Is true.
How did the eatees get dead? That is the important question.
You obviously know nothing about the adoption process. There are vast numbers of married couples aching to adopt. Have you not seen ads in newspapers by couples trying to find a child to adopt?
Your claim that there are more children than homes to take them is patently untrue.
I read all of the post and I retract what I said about you knowing nothing about the adoption process! Serves me right for not reading every word.
But still, I don't understand how you can say there aren't enough families to adopt. You know it's the exact opposite.
read George H. Bush in the Congressional Record or Kissinger in NSSM-200 and understand beyond a shadow of a doubt that its Republicans who laid the groundwork for the current Biological Revolution (a/k/a Sexual Revolution) waged against Family.
Interesting.
It's also clear to me that the Bush family is pushing "globaloney," whether actively or passively--see NAFTA/CAFTA/WTO/MFN
Of course, they have co-operators, X42 and Gingrich pre-eminent among them.
GWB has studiously ignored PRChina's murderous ways--all of which should bring IMMEDIATE suspension of MFN status--and thus, GWB has presided over the continuing decline of American economic strength.
A second mortgage is not "productive investment."
Thanks for the quick reminder about the G'scians/HRC.
Good analysis of the "thinking" and methodology.
FWIW, in Wisconsin, the unwritten Iron Law is that no black child will EVER be placed with white adoptive parents. Never.
One does not need computer calculating power to determine that this guarantees a large 'overhang' of un-adopted children.
Please explain to me which of the two expressed alternatives in the underlined passage is the lesser of two evils.
No, this is the "some things are so patently obvious only a moron can't see them" gambit.
Guess who the moron is (hint; it isn't me).
I've heard many instances of this. Some states (the great state of California/sarcasm, I believe) it's spoken out loud or written down. I could be wrong. But many places it is the SOP - black children to black families only. Otherwise (ducks) they wouldn't be raised to speak poor English and hate white people.*
*I am NOT saying that all black families/people speak poor English and hate white people. But that is what liberals (both black and white) have been shoving down black Americans throats for a couple of generations as "black culture". When I was a teenager in the 60s I hung out with a lot of black kids and there was not the hatred and racism there is today. Or that is promoted as proper "black culture". At least from my POV.
Perhaps you need to do something about it.
There are more than enough married couples willing to adopt babies, preferably healthy and white. But few couples want to adopt older children, especially those who are emotionally disturbed or whom have other special needs. If a healthy white infant was available to the members of this board, you would get hundreds of responses offering to adopt the baby. If a 10 year old child that has been abused were offered, few would offer.
If TPTB would remove children from hellish homes right away (for instance, after cruel abuse, sexual abuse, etc) instead of foster parents/give "real" parents another try/kid gets abused again/another foster home/give abusive parent(s) another chance/further abuse etc etc - there wouldn't be so many severely damaged 10 year olds.
I am not a fan of CPS - I know the kind of damage they do. But allowing children to stay with hardcore drug addicted cruelly abusive parents is what destroys children. Decent orphanages run by kind people is better than that.
And regarding your statement that people only want white babies, where do you get that nonsense? Many white couples are willing to adopt babies or children of any race, but again, TPTB (at least here on the left coast) prefer to place black babies with a black family, even if there are qualified parents of other races, and no black ones. So the reverse of your statement is true.
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