I was emailed this article thru an adoption group that I belong to. It infuriated me as well as other members in the group. I was just curious as to what your responses may be?

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Many Christians oppose the idea of two women or two men forming a supposed family by taking someone else’s children or paying someone to incubate a child or being impregnated with some anonymous father’s sperm. I don’t know why the religious only seem concerned when this family tampering occurs with homosexuals. Why does anyone, religious or not, think that forming artificial families is acceptable?

... And yet, most people will go right along with taking a child from its mother. They congratulate the taker and pretend - right along with the $1.5 billion U.S. adoption industry -that the child has miraculously acquired a new set of parents, falsified birth certificate and all. The truth is that while we have many people who may function in a parental role in our life, we all only have one set of true parents, one mommy and one daddy. Sometimes we are separated, physically, legally, emotionally, or a combination of these, from those parents. Parents, however people like to deny it, can never be replaced. Only when we realize that every child has only one mom and one dad will the idea of “two mommies” become the absurdity that it should be.

... Children are no longer looked upon as a blessing, but as a right. If we are not blessed with any, we believe that we have every right to obtain one, by any means possible.

...As we head toward this brave new world, let us not blame only homosexual activists for leading us away from true family. The people who approved of stranger adoption and who sat silently while fertility doctors performed their hocus pocus to create babies in a test tube are now reaping what has been sown. When mothers cease to exist, we will have only ourselves to blame. "

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These are just mere clips of a long article that, IMO, is completely ludicrious. Ironically, the author was adopted herself. :confused:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vaughan/tricia2.htm

Sounds to me like projection. I'm willing to bet she had a bad childhood and blames it all on the fact that she was adopted.

Better kids suffer being passed from one apathetic orphanage to the next then have gay parents...all for the children of course...

I find the post quite disturbing and annoying.

I grew up in a family where my parents were always willing to take in unwanted children. They had two biological children, my younger brother and me but there were always loads of kids in the house. At one time we had nine children living with us. These were children who's parents either could not or would not care for them. One was a child prostitute, one was a severely mentally handicapped child who was unable to eat on his own, one saw his father rape his younger sister, many were brothers and sisters who would otherwise have been seperated. My parents formally adopted the youngest of these children, an infant born to two alcoholics. Three of the children, two brothers and a sister stayed with us long into adulthood. In fact, even though my parents have passed away, my brothers and sisterand I are still very close. I was best man at each of their weddings and am godfather to three of their children. Mybrother Tom and I golf together about once a week. I call them my brothers and sister because all the years they have been part of our family they were loved just as much as my parents biological children. Emotionally, if not biologically they are my parent's children and my brothers and sister.

I married a widow with three children and I feel as much their father and their children's grandfather as if I was their biological father.

Any person who claims that parents who take children out of love, rather than because they are fruit of their loins are any less a parent is a complete fool.

The author of the article sounds like a bitter person who had an unhappy experience earlier in life.

I completely agree. My son was born to my husband and his ex-wife. I adopted him at 15 months old after he and his ex divorced and the Court terminated her parental rights. She didn't fight it whatsoever. Let's just say, she was trash, in and out of jail and couldn't give a shit if her son lived or died. This was the 2nd child she had neglected. Both fathers took custody of the kids. In this situation, certainly the author of that article would not disagree that the children be taken from the so-called mother, or "parent".

There were a ton of comments at the end of that article (click on the link for "comments") that applaud this woman. After reading them, I was mortified. Thanks for backing me up 500 and Frogger. Now I know I'm the sane one.

Saycricket,

I would be willing to bet you love your adopted child with all your heart and soul. Being a mother or father is much more than simply siring or giving birth. It is sitting up nights with a sick child, hugging when needed, disciplining when needed, putting food on the table and listening to their worries and complaints. It is getting excited over a bunch of dandelions picked and handed to you or watching cartoons you hate along with your child.

You are that child's mother in every sense of the word.

Wow. The person who wrote that comment in your group is a freakin' moron. My oldest sister is actually my mom's daughter from a previous marriage. To this day, my sister shudders to think of how she would've turned out if she'd been raised by her biological father rather than her adoptive one (my dad officially adopted her shortly after he and my mother were married).