bye, felicia

[MilSpecs]

It's not that simple. There are not enough babies and toddlers for every family who wants to adopt. There are plenty of older children with a lot of baggage that nobody wants to adopt.

You can't look at it like demand for a newborn is the same as demand for a a thirteen year old who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

The entire point of adoption is to find homes for children, not to find children for adults.

[Fife]

Not a zero sum game, mdj.

[clubgop]

Looks like Jesus won.

Yeah, right... and remind me again how the left has done their fair share of genocide of generations by legal means?

Oh, also... side note. Democrats were the ones that refused to give support to low income minorities originally because they were black... but hell, lets ignore that. Your meme rings true if we take all logic and thought off the table.

Yeah, WTF is that? I shouldn't stop the kid from getting in Montys windowless van with promises of candy because I am unwilling to put up the kids college tuition. Real moral high ground you got there.

[clubgop]

Not a zero sum game, mdj.

Everything is to them. It's almost as if they don't understand how markets work.

[MilSpecs]

Not a zero sum game, mdj.

I know people want infants, but it's secondary to ethical adoption practices. We shouldn't normalize a marketplace mentality about adoption (recognizing that it is a de facto market).

[MilSpecs]

Not a zero sum game, mdj.

Everything is to them. It's almost as if they don't understand how markets work.

It's a shande for us all that it's a marketplace.

[Fife]

Not a zero sum game, mdj.

I know people want infants, but it's secondary to ethical adoption practices. We shouldn't normalize a marketplace mentality about adoption (recognizing that it is a de facto market).

Why not, exactly?

[MilSpecs]

Because we long ago decided that it's unethical to buy and sell human beings.

[Fife]

Because we long ago decided that it's unethical to buy and sell human beings.

? Those kids are property? OK, who do kids belong to?

[MilSpecs]

Because we long ago decided that it's unethical to buy and sell human beings.

? Those kids are property? OK, who do kids belong to?

If you practice adoption law then you know the answer to this better than I do. Until the birthparents sign their rights away and the state's designated time period has passed, the child presumptively 'belongs' to the birthparents. If rights have already been severed then the state determines where the child goes.