(July 12, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Maybe I'm going to sound like a terrible person here, or maybe a little xenophobic. But I really hate how celebrities and rich people, and even other people always think about adopting children from foreign countries, before they think about adopting children from their own countries. It's like the children who were born here are 'less worthy' for some reason. It's like they want to adopt someone so they can say they did this really truly great thing, and if they adopt one of the more than 100,000 kids in the US who need a home, that it's just not good enough.
The idea being.. Chinese and Korean specifically babies/children have it a little worse than the worst of the worst here could ever imagine.
The problem is when an unmarried woman or a woman who gets divorced has children and wants to get remarried the new man 9/10 times will not have anything to do with the other mans kids. So they are sent to live with relitives (grandparents) or they are outright abandoned. Which in of itself is not the tragic issue. What makes it tragic is when the grandparents get too old or there are no relitives to send the kids to. They become wards of the state. which the state does not feel it is their place to raise children, but rather feel it is important that the children be made to pay for their own room and board. which makes orphanages more like labor camps.
Very little care is given.. In the land of china, they had a strict rules about children (how many one could have) Girls were hated so they sent them off to the death/labor camps.. When the camp got too full they put the sick or the new borns/one that could not work into dying rooms, where they would be strapped to tables and or chairs and left to die.
So.. yeah, I want to apologize for all the Chinese babies that people adopted over American babies...
That said I hate it that it has become a in vogue thing to do... but at least some of them have a chance.
