Issues in Adoption | Adoption Should Be Encouraged as an Alternative to Abortion and Single Parenthood

In a classroom of six-year olds, the teacher was discussing a picture of a family. One of the children featured had a different hair color than did the other family members. A little girl in the class said maybe that was because the boy had been adopted. “I know all about adoptions,” she said, “because I was adopted.” ‘What does that mean if you’re adopted?” asked a classmate. “It means,” said the little girl, “that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.”

Yet there are whole organizations that exist for the sole purpose of aborting the...

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