Sunday, 29 January 2012

Pro-life and adoption agencies

Someone isn't doing the maths. One one side you have women who are pregnant, don't want the baby but can't face abortion. On the other you have couples desperate for children who can't have them. Mix the two together and you get explosions of fizzy pop and marshmallows.

Seems that Prolife doesn't much care about what happens once the child is born, though, just that the child is born at all.

I recognise that, if you've made the step to adopt a child that's not your own, some might say it's not that much further a push to consider adopting a child that is 3 or 4 years old and comes with a difficult upbringing. The heartstrings are sensitive after all and they're talking to a primed, overly effusive maternal audience.

However, Adoption UK have this terrible Wall they put up showing how wonderful healthy children have perfect upbringing with love, security, milk, cuddles, education, trust, family, attention, friends etc.... Watch, then as they bring the bricks crashing down one by one in this excrutiatingly painfully slow process with explanations for dummies where they say, eg, 'Love. They may not have had any and might not want yours'. 'cuddles. They won't have had many due to abuse and won't trust yours'. 'FRIENDS. Coz they didn't get cuddles they might not want friends etc...'. I sort of expected them to then write 'HUMAN NATURE. Due to not have all those previous bricks, they might not be normal'.

Anyway. You get my point. It seemed rather over the top, although I know they're just trying to ram the point home. Smashing that dream again I guess.



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