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To: blue red who wrote (560251)	4/5/2004 4:11:19 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

One can always find excuses to do what one wishes to do. I am just saying that I personally would never want to have to make that decision or be a party to such a decision. As they say in the Hill Country, "It just dont seem right". Lets move on, you obviously feel stronger about this subject then do I. jdn

To: blue red who wrote (560251)	4/5/2004 4:17:47 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to 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.

To: blue red who wrote (560251)	4/5/2004 4:20:52 PM
From: nolimitz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I beg to differ... and I am still for a womans choice. As a father of two adopted kids, the first fits in group (5)Black babies, The second fits in to groups (1),(2),(3) and (5) We (and many others) wanted kids very badly and did not care if they were purple. Last I knew if you wanted only a white child, you could figure on at least a 3yr wait in most cases and the adoption "fee's" tend to triple. Our area is teeming with multicultural (bi-racial) families in a very WHITE oriented community. We have been openly accepted by nearly everyone we come in contact with. I think you need to brush up on you adoption stats.