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Originally posted by ltl/fb
And do you know how many non-adopted kids are out there? You make women who would rather have an abortion have kids, some of them think they are so cute that they keep them when they're born. During these kids' childhoods, a decent proportion are going to be given up by or taken away from the mother, when they are older and far less adoptable.
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I appreciate the point you are making about unwanted kids. And, I appreciate DTB's point about the racial disparity in unwanted kids. These are both huge problems, though my understanding is that adopting the neediest kids is like adopting an angry martian shark. I know one nice girl who's family has fostered 100s of these kids for Chicago's DCFS, and I know a lot of people in Chicago who deal with the kids before they are taken out of their homes and put up in foster homes. Strangely, the girl I know is from a farm town about 50 miles South of Chicago. They do whatever they can to take these kids out of the zooey neighborhoods. And then there is the DCFS system itself, where kids are constantly raping each other etc. etc. etc. Thank God for some of these foster parents, though not necessarily all.
That said, its been kind of interesting watching the abortion, and teenage pregnancy rates fall together ever since that nice Bill Clinton forced his Contract With America on y'all and ended welfare. In the big picture, we roll back the Great Society bullshit to somewhere around 1927-levels, I doubt there is anything left for us to argue about on a societal level.
ET clarify that they didn't foster hundreds of kids "at a time"
