Letters to the Editor
Allie_
Published Letters: 1252 Editor's Choice: 109
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it really is the cell phone
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or the provider, anyway. Some phones allow two people to talk at once and some feel like you're radioing someone on Mars. Someone out there with more technical expertise than I have should be able to tell you what to ask for when you swap services.
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some thoughts
[Read the article: The other side of international adoption]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the race issue is a red herring. I don't feel differently about adoptions from the Ukraine than I do about adoptions from Korea. I haven't heard of anyone holding Ukranian immersion classes for the many orphans adopted from there.
An anonymous said - and I agree - that mothers should be allowed to keep their children. Another poster said that adoption is about finding homes for children, not children for homes. Very well put. Okay, it's naive to think that if Americans stopped adopting Korean children, the Korean gov't would suddenly start subsidizing unwed mothers. But I think it's also naive to think they haven't noticed they have a good thing going here, selling their poor to rich Americans. What if, instead of adopting a baby from wherever, Angelina adopted a mother from wherever, paying for her housing, her education, improving her world and making it possible for her to keep her own child? Why is that such a shocking idea?
Laurel - with all due respect I find it hard to believe that you have more than one friend who has aborted a baby then adopted to avoid losing her figure. Where are you making friends, Sociopathic Bitches Anonymous? Nevertheless, a lot of your points are good ones. I can specifically vouch for the religious aspect of adoptions: anyone who's been following the news may be familiar with the case of Anna Mae He, who's from Memphis. Anna Mae was essentially kidnapped by the Baker family, who had agreed to foster her temporarily. The Bakers repeatedly made the point - in court, on the news, etc. - that they were Christian and Anna Mae's birth parents were Buddhist, and that by raising Anna, they were saving her soul. They showed pictures Anna drew in Sunday school on the news. They made sure news teams photographed the religious pictures in their home, and attended their church with them. Their pro bono lawyer, Larry Parrish, is an Evangelical Christian who has taken pro bono work in support of many Evangelical causes. The judge who first ruled on their case, also a Christian, stated in his ruling that, among other things, the Bakers should get to keep Anna because they were wealthier than her birth family. Fortunately a higher court overturned his ruling, and Anna has now been returned to her parents. But it took eight years, and in the meantime, the Bakers were poisoning Anna's mind against her birth culture so much that she now claims to hate the sight of Chinese ideograms. And there are an awful lot of supporters of the Bakers still. Larry Parrish has now issued a statement that Anna is a pure and innocent martyr, using deliberately religious language throughout his statement. These Evangelical types really are willing to go so far as to adopt "heathen" children for the purpose of saving their souls.