Please Consider Adoption
by In these modern times people are going to extreme lengths in order to become pregnant and bare children. But there are lots of children born everyday who need loving parents and good homes. If you are having difficulties having children, please consider adoption. It is a good thing.
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Let me start by saying I was adopted and I can safely say it wa the best thing that ever happened to me. I was raised by loving, caring parents who gave me every opportunity to succeed in life.
I find myself troubled by the extreme lengths people go to in order to have their own biological children. Just today a woman in Spain died only two years after using fertility treatments in order to conceive twins. She lied about her age in order to receive the treatments.
That’s just one example. Just about everyone has heard of the “OctoMom” – a woman who used in-vitro fertilization in order to conceive 8 children at once! Never mind the fact that she is a single mom who already had six children prior to her treatments.
What is going on people?
Children need good, safe homes. If adults feel like they really want to and are ready to raise children; and if they are having troubles conceiving, then these would-be parents should be matched with the children who need faimilies.
Some of the stuff going on these days is downright unethical. It really disheartens me because it seems like people are more focused on their own needs and desires than they are about the health and well-being of the children out there.
Sometimes it really does start to feel like we’ve lost our way.
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Post CommentRuby Hawk
On July 17, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I agree, with so many children out there who need a good home, why put yourself through the invitro thing. Adopt a child and give him a loving home.
Karen Gross
On July 19, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I believe that the shortage of children (especially healthy babies) available to be adopted through public agencies is due to the easy access to abortions (which in Canada are funded by the taxpayer), and the welfare system, which makes it possible for teenage girls to raise their own children. In generations past, most of these babies would have been put up for adoption.
I was raised by teenage parents (my dad married my mom) and (in my opinion) my parents never really got caught up. I always felt responsible for their unhappy marriage. I envied my cousin who was adopted. Her parents really wanted a child.
Earl Schmegley
On July 28, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I’m not totally convinced that there is a shortage of children for adoption – though there probably is a shortage of white children. Maybe we’ll get over that as a society one of these days. There are so many foster kids out there its ridiculous – these kids need good homes. Too many people want little replicants though – so they don’t even consider adoption, or if they do it has to be a white kid. I dunno – probably another topic for another day…
S A JOHNSON
On August 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I absolutely agree with this article. When I was sixteen I decided that when I had children I would be artificially inseminated. However, when became 23 I realized that there are way too many children out there who need good homes and my goal is to begin adopting when I turn 35 give or take a year or two. I believe that it is selfish to continuously have children or try to have children biologically, I mean children are children. I don’t plan on adopting babies though because they are very high in demand and I believe that if a child believes you truly love them, it doesn’t matter what age they come into your life.