Posted on 05/01/2006 7:16:09 PM PDT by Panerai
BOSTON --Chinese policies aimed primarily at keeping its children out of the homes of same-sex couples has helped cause a 6 percent drop in adoptions in Massachusetts in the last year.
The University of Massachusetts Center for Adoption Research found that the adoption of Chinese babies in the state has declined by 17 percent, the Boston Globe reported Monday.
Overall there were 161 fewer adoptions in Massachusetts in 2004 than the year before, the center found.
While researchers pinpointed several factors that contributed to the drop, they determined that the policies of the Chinese government had the largest impact.
In response to publicity about Chinese children being placed with same-sex couples, the government now makes all prospective parents sign a statement pledging that they are not gay or lesbian. Officials have also decided that no more than 8 percent of adopted Chinese babies will go to single parents.
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This sucks. Adoption by gay parents > abortion.
You'd be able to tell this was from the Glob even if you didn't see it labeled as such.
Aren't there some babies right there in Mass that need adopting?
How many of my fellow Massachusetts residents will see this and think "Hmmm, maybe we go a little too light on the ChiComs?"
Not many, and they'll continue to work towards the gradual change to a socialist society, because "if it's done right" it's the best way.
Maybe you should find out and you could adopt them.
A case can be made that the Chinese are not willing to have Chinese children "reared" by gay 'couples'.
;-)
Failing to realize, of course, that any way that gives government that much power cannot possibly be the "best" way. They say it just hasn't been run by the "right" people. With the amount of power that socialism puts in the hands of the state, the "right" kind of people will always be beaten out by the "wrong" people.
Ever hear the tired old saying, "power corrupts?" It got it backwards. Power draws the corrupt, and absolute power draws the absolutely corrupt. The more power is up for grabs, the harder people will fight for it. And whoever is willing to fight hardest will get it. And those willing to fight the hardest for power are precisely the people that should not be wielding it.
YEP....
That is why the Chinese will be such a formidable opponent to the United States in years to come.
They are to be admired for preventing adoptions of Chinese children into so called gay families, whatever they are! (families of convenience.)
I wonder why the Globe is writing about this now. China has been restricting international adoptions by singles and banning international adoptions by homosexuals for several years.
If there were zero interested adoptive parents out there, your equation might be correct. However, there are a good number of not-gay interested parents out there. If anything, the stats in the article seem to indicate that Massachusetts gay couples were targeting China as a source of children. I suppose different folks can read the same article and draw different conclusions.
It's amazing that China has more respect for children than Massachusetts does.
Adoption by loving mother and father > Gay adoption > Abortion. Look about right?
"Aren't there some babies right there in Mass that need adopting?"
Personally, I think adoption of any child is a wonderful thing as long as they're going to a stable and loving home.
I feel sorry for any child that has to go to an orphanage, but even more so for children in third-world countries where there is no oversight by the State.
The "one child" rule in China is results in state- sanctioned killings of the mothers and/or forced abortion. Discusting. I know two gay couples that have adopted foreign children and they treat those kids better than most of the birth couples I know.
Agreed. I just wonder what affect the gay couple will have on the psychological state of the chilren when they grow up.
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