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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (5539)	2/12/2001 1:37:24 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Well of course, I agree with you. And unfortunately guilt and hormones frequently make people keep children instead of giving them away, when they really OUGHT to give them away. We have far too many unfit parents already. To force anyone else to become a parent- on the hopes that they would give children up for adoption- is just stupid (imo). I was born to a woman who was raped. I had a very slight heart murmer and so was considered fairly unadoptable- I went into the foster care system and was in 5 different foster homes until I was finally placed with an alchoholic father and an abusive (and mentally ill) mother at 18 months. It would have been far better for my mother if she could have had an abortion. She was torn apart by the fact that I went into the foster care system- she was consumed by guilt for giving me away. She never had more children. She was not able to have a stable relationship. I think she would have been more psychologically healthy if she had gotten an abortion. Maybe not- but things certainly didn't turn out well for her based on the route she took. It's funny- you would think adopted folks would be all pro-"life". But the ones I've met are all prochoice. I wonder if there is a study on that, somewhere.