Letter: Observe adoption awareness month

alan b.
Quincy, IL     11/09/2009 4:28 PM

Lisa A: you make a very good point. i work with a lady who adopted a boy a few years back. He is now 12 and cannot be handled at home. He threatens to kill their younger children. The parents tried to get some serious institutional help, but ran into a bureacracy that almost forced them as parents to give up thier parental rights to get him the institutional help he needed. Financially they could not afford it. A few months ago, they gave up their parental rights making him a ward of the state, to get him the help he needed. Diagnosis: Mother was a serious doper before, during and after pregnancy and it messed up his mental and emotional balance. Why aren't pregnant women, who use drugs, charge with child abuse? Oh oh oh, I forgot it's HER body and that baby inside her has no rights until the drug damage is done and he/she sees the light of day. As you lefties suggest, "Well, hell, there is an easy solution to this problem that WE live by...when in doubt, KILL IT!"

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Valerie F.
Worthington, MN     11/06/2009 8:24 PM

Adoption is a wonderful thing but a long process. The process REALLY needs to be little bit more practical. We get questioned, background checks, finger prints, everything has to be what the state wants. Now why dont a family in the hospital having a baby have to do the same stuff. They are people out there that shouldnt be having kids.

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Lisa A.
Windom, MN     11/06/2009 12:46 PM

Ms. Fletcher, you are to be commended for your hard work and kindness. Just one thing to those interested in adoption: be careful, especially when it comes to the kids of drug addicts and alcoholics. My sister and her husband adoped three children who were labeled "medically fragile" and have learned since that they were ill prepared for what that really meant. By doing what they thought was a good thing for those kids and their own family (they had 2 healthy kids of their own) they ended up with a situation that sometimes is almost impossible to handle. They have two (of 3) adopted children who were born addicted to heroine and alcohol. While I strongly encourage folks to adopt, I just want to warn potential parents that they need to be made completely aware of what they're getting into. Ask questions, study hard and inform yourself before making that final decision and then, if you think you can do it, go for it!

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