re: #312 HappyWarrior
āYou canāt say that about every child brought into a couple that are the opposite sexās home.ā
Thanks for saying this. One of my former students is gay and has adopted a little boy. Whenever I see them together, the kid is happy. He knows heās loved, and thatās all that should be important. Your comment reminded me of the couple in Texas that adopted a little girl from India. The first story the dad gave was that he put her outside in the alley beside the house because she wouldnāt drink her milk. It turned out that heād killed her all along. Around the same time when this baby died, the parents and another child had gone out to dinner and left that child at home all alone. Afterward, pediatrician told law enforcement that sheād seen signs of abuse on the child and sheād reported it. Iām not quite sure whether child welfare authorities investigated as thoroughly as they should have, but somehow and for some reason, the baby remained with her adoptive family and ended up dead. Her body was found not too far from the home a little less than two weeks after she disappeared. I still think about that little girl and wonder how anyone could abuse any child. It could have been that if sheād been adopted by a sameāsex couple, sheād be alive and thriving, but we have some nuts in America that seem to think certain Americans shouldnāt be permitted to adopt. That needs to change. It must change.