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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 16:31:40 EST
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Sophie,
Even if it were the case that all adopted chidren were monsters (something
which I do not believe) I do not think that aborting them would be an answer.
Not having them would be. If a fetus is human then killing it is a bad
solution simply because it is bad to kill a human being.

You may have to do some research onto what happens to adopted children.
it is not he case that the ones that turned out badly do so because
their adopted parents didn't tell them that their natural moter loved them
enough. If the children turn out badly because of something which the
parents have done then it is something which has not been identified yet.
Model adoptive parents have adopted children who have ended up in jail
or worse. it may be that the model on how to be an adopting parent is
wrong. But I don't know what is wrong with it and I don't know of anybody
who does.

The problem is sticky. There are family cousellors now who are saying that
your adopted child will turn out badly unless you are very lucky and
there isn't a damn thing that you can do about it. This is terrifying,
and in the light of it a lot of people who have adopted are saying
that if tey knew at teh time what ey know now, they would never
have adopted.

I would like to believe that there is a way to solve this problem so
that it would be possible to raise an adopted child with confidence
that it was not going to turn into a monster. This will require
research. But in teh mean time it is not moral to go about
aborting htem if they are human beings.
-- 
Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura

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