Orphanges and Adoption

Can orphanages be beneficial for needy children?

And why is it that people would rather make their own children rather than adopting parentless children? Do you think this will result in overpopulation?

Your opinions please!

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You are right Bob….

Why have a fake rather than the original. With your thinking many adopters would think the very same if they had the right equipments to do so. So many children are out there wishing for a father or a mother, someone to take care of them, I actually salute those who take in these so called “fakes” as you said Bob, and care of them and even consider them as one of their own. Remember we are the human race.

Sometimes I may be naïve, idealistic and optimistic. But the fact that the world will always be a selfish, morose and pathetic place to live in makes optimism and hope that much harder to place in our hearts. Children are our future...Ha well it looks like our future will be even more worse than it is today.

^^ Well MBNA certainly exists in the UK.

It's really sad to hear about this "cost" for adoption in the US. I don't know the process or fees that are involved with adoption in the UK, but I know for sure that the biggest part of the adoption process here is whether the so called mother (if she still lives and is still part of the child's life) is happy with whom is requesting the adoption of a child. I'm not sure I would like to look into the adoption process in case of any parts I find "wrong" or immoral. The adoption of a child should be a simple process, one that will not disrupt the child's life any more than it already has.

My heart goes to the poor children that suffer, for what ever reason. I hope that my daughter never has to go through anything as traumatic as losing either me or my wife as parents or the worst has to be cared for by someone other than her family.

I decided to have my own child because I want to continue my familys blood line.

Its one thing to water your neighbours garden but to plant your own seed and watch it grow is something quite different...

A gift that you will treasure and be with you every minute of your life. With a bit of luck some of your personality will live on once you are long gone.

I cannot however understand those parents who bring a child into the world and then leave them to an orphange. The arguements are many, there will be those arguments that say that those parents have no ability to raise the child as they are poverty stricken. Then they should have never brought a child into the world in the first place. How could anyone be seperated from a child that is actually flesh and blood and a part of them? I could not go on living with the the thought of that if I were in their shoes.

I don't know if you are all aware, but in China especially in the rural parts, only male offspring are kept, female offspring are sent to orphanges. This is so sad and happening still as I type. This is done because the male offspring bear the family name and carry on the family name, they think the females are worthless, this is archaic and barbaric!

Most of the orphanges in China are full of female children and each year there are many couples from the US and elsewhere who do not have children of their own who visit China and adopt these unwanted girls taking them to a home in the west. It really is so sad.

There are also organisations like world vision where you can adopt a child, not phyiscally bring them into your home and raise them but to provide a monetary allowance monthly through the organisation for the upkeep of a specific child that you have adopted in another country. I just wish more people would help the plight of these poor neglected children.

They are being sold...

^^^Nevertheless, I hope that they find a good home, better then being left in those crummy orphanges with no care, love and hope for the future.

i hope those children will find a home where they are loved. So many orphanges I've read and seen before are dirty, poor, rundown, and certainly not a place for kids.

* And yes, I think this world is going to be overpopulated

^^^* and yes, I think this world is going to be overpopulated.

It is already overpopulated.

Yes many would love to bear their own fruit...But I actually commend those who take children that are not their own blood, and raise them as one of their own.

If you think about it we are all the same species, with the same colour of blood and the same shade of bones. Many people just do not see that. A shame...

Well i'm never going to have my own kids. I feel like people are going off and having kids and not thinking about the kids who really need homes. Im going to adopt all the way!

!Mallory!