re: #37 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

It’s not always a matter of morals and will; some foster children’s parents are dead. Adoption isn’t exactly a panacea, either. Some adoptive parents can be every bit as whacked out as the Maraachlis.

Yes, but few people in America just decide they don’t want the kids and give them away into foster care.

A number of birth mothers will decide at birth that their baby is better off with a married couple.

I suppose there are some where the parents died.

Usually, the older children in foster care were removed by CPS. One of my childhood friends has adopted five children—all siblings. Their birth mother doesn’t do what it takes to stop having children, and by now CPS will just go to the hospital and take the baby. When the fifth was born, the state decided to give my friend and her husband the baby since they already had the oldest four.

Cute kids.