[ProtectOurFreedom]

I sure feel sorry for this kid. At the same time, I sure feel sorry for us residents of Santa Clara County that have to read this crap in the SJ Mercury News. Do FReepers in other parts of the country see this sort of thing, too? It doesn't seem that long ago when foster services placed rather normal, but troubled, kids. This sort of "problem" seems too weird.

[dc-zoo]

Time to call "Adoptafag".

[Prime Choice]

Send him off to Alaska. I guarantee he'll come back a husky f***er.

[NavVet]

"Exploring" I think the day he enrolled in the cosmotology class, it is safe to assume he had his sexuality figured out.

[aodell]

The Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children's Services should be closed down.

[longtermmemmory]

I think somebody at this welfare department need an emergency suspension.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The Bureau: The Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children's Services....."

Comment: Go down to the offices of this Bureau and take a good look at the work force. Just look and then leave.

[Casloy]

He loves cosmetology and loves to do hair and make-up...

So, what is the confusion? He's GAY!

[FairOpinion]

"This teen needs a structured home that can be open to his ongoing exploration of sexual identity and gender."

Poor kid, but it's pathetic that the main thing the Family services is concerned about is to make sure the "good home" will allow his "ongoing exploration of sexual identity".

He needs a good home, to teach him what is natural and what is not. Who knows WHAT he is doing as part of his "ongoing sexual exploration".

Since he is 17, it may be a tremendously hard job, if it's even possible.

I bet he was sexually abused in the foster home and they were teaching him unnatural things, telling him that it's all right.

[F.J. Mitchell]

The title of the ad , should have started:

Atten: "Pedophiles, NAMBLA, and aggressive homosexuals!!! Have we got a deal for you, or what????"

[valkyrieanne]

They have foster kids at age 17 in CA? Why not just legally emancipate the kid?

[NCjim]

Next year he'll be able to vote. I wonder under which party he will register?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This teen needs a structured home that can be open to his ongoing exploration of sexual identity and gender.

I can just imagine me going to my dad at 17 and telling him that he needs to be open to my ongoing exploration of sexual identity and gender.

I'd be wearing a chastity belt and locked in a convent before I managed to get the whole sentence out. And we aren't Catholic.

[SamAdams76]

He loves cosmetology and loves to do hair and make-up...

I think he's beyond the "exploring" stage.

[tophat9000]

A true parent is the one that will tell a kid know

[smonk]

how, exactly, does one "explore" one's gender?

[therut]

I have never read such an article in any paper in Arkansas. Sounds like what we might read in the "Adopt a Pet" of the week from the pound. Never seen a "Adopt a kid" ad. I don't think such woudld be printed. Sounds to much like a slave sale ad to me.