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Originally Posted by lurkette
For the moment, I'd like to take adoption off the table. It's certainly an option, but not our first choice. (I just spent the past 7 years working on a study of children raised in orphanages and have heard far too many horror stories about the effects of early experience on later development...having kids is a crap shoot whatever way you slice it, but the dice are loaded against you with adoption.)
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I'd just like to ask where kids are (still) raised in orphanages in the states. I was adopted at age 5 and lived with my biological mother and in foster homes before then. Adoption can be a bit of a pandora's box for the parents - but I don't think it's quite what you infer here. I suspect it saved my life - either literally or metaphorically.
Random tid-bit of information from my sociology class on family. A lot of countries have negative population growth. The only reason why the U.S. doesn't is because of immigration.