re: #416 Liberal Classic

re: #417 KansasMom

Agree with both of you, esp. on the part about “adoptions” being seen as unnatural, particularly for the birth mother, who is frequently shunned for having placed the baby for adoption.

My daughter had a baby when she was 15. Through great counseling and assistance from Catholic Charities, she decided and to place the baby for adoption, and she chose the couple. I cannot tell you the number of people who would look at her (and us) really strange, and some even made comments, because we weren’t “keeping” the baby. No one can understand the pain of that decision; but in my daughter’s case, it was absolutely the correct decision to make.