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Adoption in the case of rape? What's wrong with that?

Oh, do you think the baby should be killed instead?

I've been reading this thread since it was posted, and have some issues with the entire idea and so decided to sit it out.......until now.

Marajade has taken quite a bit of abuse for her stance here and has held her own, but because of a situation in my life I have to chime in here.

My daughter is almost 8, her best friend just turned 8. Her best friend's mother has become a close friend of mine, even though she is close to half my age. My daughter's best friend was conceived of a rape. My friend chose to have and keep her baby even though she was only 16 at the time. I would nominate this young woman as mother of the year in a heartbeat.

She has since married and now also has a 19 month old and you would never know that the older girl is not Daddy's girl. and at the risk of the wrath of my own husband and father of my child, I would nominate him as father of the year for BOTH of those girls.

We do not live in a cookie cutter world and there are no absolutes.

And those of us who are able should be asking if she needs any help from us. I must applaud her greatly for the decision she had made.

There are many posters in this thread that through no mistake of her own, wouldn't even consider marriage material. How terribly sad of a tale of society of today is that.

I would nominate this young woman as mother of the year in a heartbeat.

So would I.

I would nominate him as father of the year for BOTH of those girls.

So would I. But they are young enough to attach to him as their father and see him that way.

We do not live in a cookie cutter world

Clearly.

and there are no absolutes.

And if that's true, then what's right is whatever you decide is right. Nothing good will come from situational ethics. It's been tried; it doesn't work. Once you go down this path, you take the authority out of what's truly right and what's truly wrong. The only possible end result is social and moral anarchy.