So what does a person do if their wife or husband dies and they wind up a single parent?
Look - I agree that in an ideal world, the best situation is two loving, married, parents. But we don’t always get ideal situations - and one loving parent is a lot better than two who don’t care.
I’m sensitive to this because I was orphaned at nine and (briefly) wound up a ward of the state before being taking in a rather unorthodox way by people who cared for me and loved me and gave me a huge amount of support - and who had to fight the courts on more than one occasion to be allowed to do it, because it wasn’t the norm. And I know other kids who wound up being adopted into nuclear families and while for some of them it was wonderful, for some of them it really wasn’t. It’s not always simple.
“So what does a person do if their wife or husband dies and they wind up a single parent?”
Look, that’s different. And you know it is. This daughter of Sarah Palin is NOT a widow, nor is the father a widower. They both consciously got themselves “pregnant,” dawdled through her mother’s campaign “thinking” about getting married, and are now boring me with their not getting married.
Perfect examples of people who should give up the baby. Their both unfit parents. Sarah might be a great grandmother (and I believe that she’d be so), but her daughter, in my book, is a disgrace to Sarah and common decency. What’s stopping her (and what HAS stopped her) from getting married? Nothing that we know of. Give up the baby . . .
“I’m sensitive to this because I was orphaned at nine and (briefly) wound up a ward of the state”
I was given up for adoption at birth . . . I’ve been there . . . I was adopted in the 40s into a nuclear family . . . . I adopted my daughter . . . she’s been there . . . and now she and her husband are trying to adopt a baby.
But . . . she has to go to RUSSIA to adopt because HERE IN AMERICA THERE ARE NO INFANTS IN ANY ORPHANAGE TO ADOPT BECAUSE WE EITHER K-I-L-L THEM IN ABORTUARIES OR WE K-E-E-P THEM in single-parent homes. KILL THEM OR KEEP THEM. So, my daughter and her great husband are going to spent over $40 thousand dollars and are going through reams of bureaucratic crap to adopt a baby from ANOTHER COUNTRY.
Because we’re KILLING THEM OR KEEPING THEM! It gets me mad, as you’ve probably figured out by now.