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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (58595)	10/12/1999 3:21:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm not surprised about the clothes for the needy, Del. My husband and I decided, before we conceived our second child, that the right thing to do was to adopt a child who was already born and needed a home. In a magazine, I saw a very moving appeal for desperately needed adoptive parents for impoverished children in some third world countries. I wrote that my husband and I would adopt a child who needed a home and, asking what our next step should be. We got a letter from them saying that to be eligible to adopt one of these tragic orphans, we had to be Born Again Christians. I wrote about us, telling the truth about being atheists, but telling about our family and life and values and desire to adopt a child who needed parents. I didn't hear from them again, though. So we weren't allowed to have the little one. I wondered after, from time to time, what happened to "our" child-- the one we might have raised. It's a shame. We are good parents and we raised a fine son. I hope all those sad orphans found good homes with loving parents and weren't consigned to childhood in a third world orphanage. I suppose the concern was less for their lives on earth than for assuring their entry into heaven. It seemed so cruel to me.