apmom wrote:
It takes two to play but unfortunately, as we all know, only one usually ends up paying for the next 18 years or so. I am with you Fancy. I wouldn't have one but it isn't my business what another woman does with her body. I am not walking in her shoes and have no clue what is going on in her life. It is up to her, her Doctor and God. I am not her keeper nor am I her moral conscience. Often it is better to have the abortion than to have a child that will be born into a home of abuse and mistreatment. There are times when an abortion is better than being born in a condition that it will take financial means that nobody can afford just to keep that child alive for a few years (and we know that the cons don't want to help support this child born with severe medical conditons because it might raise their taxes). This doesn't even take into consideration the pain and suffering that child will endure.

Those that are against abortion need to put their applications in at adoption agencies and adopt some of these kids that are out there unwanted. Until then, they have no room to talk.


What bothers me, AP is there are children over the age of 5 that set in multible foster homes until they either run away or turn 18.  These are the children who need to be taken in "NOW".  I was lucky, the childrens home I grew up in, kept me from the age of 5 to 18. 

People don't want to adopt these children who have been abused, neglected and even parents have run off dumping them any where they can dump them.  No, I wasn't one of those, I was one of the ones where one parent had died by the time I was 18 months old and the towns people didn't like the site of mother walking everywhere with 4 kids in tow.  In the papers from the home,  the people who had us taken from mother told them that "where you saw the 4 children, you saw mother".  They also said "we were clean and seemed to be well fed".  Mother was on her way to see us and make plans to get us out of the home that summer when she was hit by a drunk driver.

I don't regret growing up in the childrens home because we had it better than most low income children had.  We had movies twice a week, a swimming pool (heated at that), football field, basket ball court, tennis court, bowling lanes, etc.............. and many brothers and sisters who were not kin.

It isn't that way today because states have stepped in and closed down these homes.  Some were bad, granted but there were homes like the one I grew up in. 


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