(On an African American toddler adopted by a gay white couple)
If the boy were to grow up in foster homes, there would be no pretense that he was living in a normal family. His situation would be acknowledged as abnormal. He probably would be with other black children and adults. But with an adoption like this there is a pretense that he has been given a family. He is being used, and obviously he will know that someday.
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Whinge, Larry, whinge; it's all that you can do. We know that you'd just love to be able to order everyone else how to live their lives and prohibit the couple from doing this, but unfortunately for you, you can't. This is the future; American society is on a progressive slide. Like it or not, us godless communist libtards are winning, we both know it, and there ain't nothin' you can do about it. I hope your stupid little blog that nobody except you and your fanboys care about serves as an adequate means of venting your impotent rage.
So you'd rather "use" this child for your cause, by forcing it to live in foster home after foster home, never having a loving family and enduring abuse than to let the child live in a loving home with two parents that will care for it? You are a sick, sick person.
Adopting children from far is often problematic. It is feeling of superiority(we the westerners are better than those fools), it is breach of cultural transmission, it is buying children.
compared to that, homoparenting(statistically neutral in terms of psychological impact, school results or crime rate) is really a non-issue.
You're no thinking housewife; your brain is as resilient as your last name, "Laura".
Racial confusion? There is only one race; the Human race. But yeah, if the boy was old enough to have acquired a culture, there might be some confusion.
He's being used? How? People who adopt have been through extensive tests and investigations, which no "natural" parents have to do. You have to work pretty hard to become an adoptive parent (in most Western countries) and you have to really, really want to be a parent. The boy will probably be "used" to lavish love, affection and care on.
"If the boy were to grow up in foster homes, there would be no pretense that he was living in a normal family. His situation would be acknowledged as abnormal."
- THAT'S the problem you idiot! The children in foster care know that their situation is abnormal. That is why they would prefer to be adopted by a loving couple, regardless of the gender of their new parents. Granted, there are a few exceptions who have been so damaged by the system that they reject the idea of adoption entirely, but they are rare exceptions.
The only one who is using these children is you and those like you. You have just admitted that you would prefer to see children being raised by the state than being raised by loving parents. Now for the big question, do you have the guts to actually tell the children in foster care that you don't want them to be adopted, or do your convictions disappear along with your keyboard?
My knowledge in this subject comes from being a former foster parent and three time adoptive parent. Where does yours come from?
And you are so upset by this, you ran right out and tried to adopt a truck load of kids to prevent them from falling into gay hands, but you were turned down because the state doesn't allow paranoid schizophrenics to adopt.
Amiright?
Well, he's being used by you, right now, to demonstrate your extreme assholeness. And, one day, he will be able to find that out.
Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Their biological sons - via surrogate mothers - Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John and Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.
Your argument is invalid.
The 'Nuclear Family' is obsolete. Replaced by the Fusion Family; and in the future, the Antimatter Family...?! [/hyper-smartarse]
Because remember, the pain of not having a real family and drifting through the system until you're at an age to be booted out onto the street is nothing compared to going to your parents and asking why you're not the same skin color, or why you have two daddies. Truly, one can never understand that level of trauma.
as if living in poverty or foster homes is worse than profound sexual and racial confusion.
I imagine it IS worse than "sexual and racial confusion." And with gay male parents, the boy will most likely be safe from molestation. I think it's a win-win.
The only one using anybody here is you Laura, who are using the kid to make some sick racist homophobic points. You wanna be a housewife? Stick to your knitting.
@everybody
Can we stop referring to Laura Wood as "Larry", etc? It's getting to the point where people seem to be assuming that every douchey woman we get here must "really" be a man. What in Laura's rant above convinces you she's male? The homophobia? The racism? Because women are as capable of that as men.
@Glandu: My niece and nephew were not better off in orphanages, which is where they both came from. The reality for real children is more important than any cultural implications you want to theorize about, as this clown above clearly shows. Yes, there can be identity issues, but a family is better than an orphanage.
@Cloning Blues
Although he's dead now, 'Laura Wood' was originally confirmed to be the pen name of male anti-immigrationist Lawrence Auster. He wanted to tell women to get back in the kitchen but appear marginally less douchey about it via pretending to be a woman himself. I don't know who runs the site now, so theoretically it could be a woman, but I just assumed one of his wingnut buddies took it over, and referring to the author as 'Larry' is just a holdover.
'Here's what I think he should think, therefore, he will think that!'
Honestly, if he grows up to hate them, that's how it is. If he loves them, that's also how it is. You can't dictate how other people feel based on what you think. Not like it stops you, though.
Confused?
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