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Originally Posted by boatin
Aw geez, now i'm offended too. This is one of the most hurtful opinions out there about adoption. "far less optimal"??
Taking a child into your heart and home, from an orphanage or birth mother that chooses to not raise the child, is LESS optimal? Not adding another child to an already crowded world is LESS optimal??
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Chill, dude. It's far less optimal in the sense that the child was either orphaned in the first place (dead parents=bad), taken away from the birth parents by the State for their being bad (child abuse/endangerment = bad), or abandoned by the parents (birth parents not wanting baby = bad). You don't end up being put up for adoption because things in your life had gone WELL to that point. Adoption itself is fine and dandy, but you don't end up being adopted because your life is going great.
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As an aside, I'd be curious to know your view on abortion. So many anti-all-abortion people are so quick to say "adoption is the answer!". But some then turn around and suggest that adoption is "less optimal".
I'm not saying I'm sure that's you, daswig. But that's how I'd bet my money.
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It'd be nice if every pregnancy was a wanted pregnancy, so that abortion was rare. We don't live in a "nice" world, however. Abortion MUST remain legal on demand and without apology, and I support full governmental funding for abortions for those who desire them but cannot afford them. I guess you missed the bit about my having volunteered as an abortion clinic "escort" to protect women from Operation Rescue lunatics in my post above...