Just read a comment in another blog where the person who made the comment said that liberals should begin breeding more, so that we can have more good liberal kids.
Remember Alex Keaton? All the good liberal breeding didn’t make him one.
Do people honestly feel that a child made from their DNA is more worthy than a child who is adopted?
Do people think that children left without parents because of Katrina deserve their fate?
Do people think that special need kids should be left to languish?
Does it boil down to my egg, sperm and DNA are sooooooooooo special that I must propagate?
Go ahead, make me sicker than I feel already; and thanks for negating my existance as an adult adoptee. I don’t talk about being adopted much because it seems so normal to me. But maybe it’s not; maybe I have to get back onto that bandwagon.
Maybe I think that people who feel so strongly about people who must have their own should be sterilized and not allowed to be around kids. Because their views pollute the earth, and further the culture of intolerence that is brewing in this country.
Maybe I just believe the second sentence in the above paragraph.
So incredibly well said!
Anyone with properly working reproductive glands can have children. That doesn’t make them PARENTS. I can understand to a point when certain people find out they can’t have children, that it must be sad. But they have to realize that not being able to conceive a child doesn’t equal not being able to love one.
I think adoption is great! There may be people who abuse the system, but that can happen with any system. I think adoption is a very honorable decision, for both the birth parents and the adopting parents, and I think every child deserve a loving home. DNA may play a big role in who we become, but I tend to believe that our environment plays a bigger role in our lives.
as an adopted child myself, lately i have been encountering more and more of those who feel that a child that is truly THEIRS is superior. In one uncharacteristic burst of emotion, tears sprung to my eyes and I exclaimed “because adopted children are just trash, aren’t they?”
My husband once said he will never allow me to make him feel guilty for wanting his own child.
In the same vein, i will never be made to feel guilty for wanting to adopt.
Pia,
My family has been touched by adoption. My fathers sisters had been placed for adoption and we have now been reunited. I remember when we met my first aunt, he was just so happy and relieved for her that she had gone on and had a good life. I am happy that all the girls went on and had a good life. I think that giving the girls up was one of the few unselfish things that my grandmother ever did. I always looked at adopted kids as lucky as they knew that their parents really and truly wanted them. They werent just a mistake that happened one night when mom and Dad were a bit tipsy.