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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: blue red who wrote (560251)	4/5/2004 4:17:47 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (4) of 769670

You made good points, as usual. As the adoptive mother of a Korean child, I'll add that the same issue with bloodlines applies in South Korea and China as well. It has long been a practice in South Korea that when a woman with children wants to remarry, she can take her children to an adoption agency and officially become a virgin again. Also, given the relative value of males over females in much of Asia, there are far, far more girls (unadoptable in their own culture) in orphanages than boys. These girls are turned out of the government support system as a matter of course at age eighteen to live lives of economic and cultural desperation. And finally, it galls me when I hear a radical anti-choice person blithely say that adoption's the best alternative. They should spend the nights I have at my weeping teen's bedside when she faced the enormity of her loss vis a vis her original culture and language. Adoption, particularly transracial and transcultural adoption, is an extraordinarily difficult thing for both parent and child, and should not be blithely bandied about as the ultimate solution.

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