In my opinion, your field of experience is great for use in countries where the parents can be parents.
Yogi, this statement just doesn't make sense--- what children need is universal. Elian HAS, to this point, had a fairly normal childhood with caring parents. Juan has been Elian's parent even by American definition. Elian has been raised as a part of a loving family with an involved extended family. He had a mother and a father who loved him and gave him the feeling of acceptance and value children need. I am not addressing what lies in the future for Elian, nor am I waxing philosophically about political theories. I am talking about what any six year old child who has lost his mother and gone through the trauma that was Miami most needs- and that is his father. Children the world over, in all societies, have the same basic needs.
Well, we're right back at the same old same old.
YOU think it's ok to tear apart this parental relationship because it won't measure up to your ideas of what it should be idealistically, and I don't think it's ok at all.
That you are ashamed to be an American is sad. We may disagree, we may disapprove, we may get angry and try to change things, but ashamed? America is a great country. The very system that grants us the freedom and space for things to happen that we find objectionable,even wrong, is the very same system that gives us the opportunity to question and change and grow.
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