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I think that adopted children have issues of their own too and giving up a baby after its come to term is a very painful thing also. I know girls who gave up babies years ago in the '60s before Roe v Wade and they suffer to this day that they gave up their baby so theres that issue too.”

She's got a point. If you kill the kid, you'll spare him the trauma of "adoption issues."

And those "girls" Joy knows who feel guilty about giving up their babies would feel so much better about themselves if they tore the kids to pieces and sucked them out of their wombs.

If I take pictures of my kids naked, playig in he bathtub and have the pictures developed at Wal-mart, I could find myself charged as a pedophile. If convicted, I would have to register as a child molester. I can't think of any greater molestion of a child than the taking of their life. Whay don't we register all women who have abortions as child molesters? If I were a single man looking for a wife with the idea of raising children, i would think twice before I married a woman who committed the ultimate child molestation.

"She's got a point. If you kill the kid, you'll spare him the trauma of "adoption issues."

I would suggest to you that quite a bit of those "issues" are put into peoples minds by those who have no first-hand experience. I, myself, am adopted. So is my brother. So is my sister. As adults, we've had many in-depth discussions about what it means to be adopted. None of us has felt that we are "incomplete" or "unfullfilled" (or any of the other psychobabble commonly thought that adoptee's feel) by not knowing our birth mother. In fact, none of us have even given any serious thought to trying to track her down.

We are all unanimous in our appreciation for the fact that our mothers chose to give us up for adoption. We have even prayed and asked God to bless them whoever, and wherever they are. But we are also unanimous in our agreement that we feel that we are somewhat special because, as we always used to joke with other kids, "our parents picked us out specifically; your's were stuck with the one the hospital made them bring home."

I feel that most of the kids who are having these "issues" about being adopted are having them because other people won't quit badgering them with questions like, "Doesn't it just make you crazy not knowing?", or "Don't you want to know just for your medical history?"(which, by the way, is a bogus argument in most cases), etc.

I have other relatives who are also adopted, and they are all very well adjusted, and don't have all these "issues" people keep talking about.