Sad story, happy ending
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There's an interesting story[^] on the BBC news about an english woman who is(has?) adopting a young Romanian boy, and the trials she has taking care of him, and dealing with various bits of Romanian red tape. Makes you appreciate how easy we have things in the States, and I think the lady has serious guts to tackle something like this herself. There are some side links that provide a bit more information about the Romanian orphans, and the gov't push to increase the population. Hard to imagine something like this being sustained for as long as it was (at least 10-15 years). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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There's an interesting story[^] on the BBC news about an english woman who is(has?) adopting a young Romanian boy, and the trials she has taking care of him, and dealing with various bits of Romanian red tape. Makes you appreciate how easy we have things in the States, and I think the lady has serious guts to tackle something like this herself. There are some side links that provide a bit more information about the Romanian orphans, and the gov't push to increase the population. Hard to imagine something like this being sustained for as long as it was (at least 10-15 years). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
Jim Crafton wrote:
Makes you appreciate how easy we have things in the States...
In what context?
"The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever." - Native American Proverb
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Makes you appreciate how easy we have things in the States...
In what context?
"The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever." - Native American Proverb
Well we don't have a country run by a dictatorship that decides to raise the population by forbidding all forms of contraception/abortion, and then causing large numbers of children to be born and later abandoned in orphanages. Read up on what went on in Romania in the late 60's through the 80's. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4630855.stm[^] ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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Well we don't have a country run by a dictatorship that decides to raise the population by forbidding all forms of contraception/abortion, and then causing large numbers of children to be born and later abandoned in orphanages. Read up on what went on in Romania in the late 60's through the 80's. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4630855.stm[^] ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
Jim Crafton wrote:
we don't have a country run by a dictatorship that decides to raise the population by forbidding all forms of contraception/abortion, and then causing large numbers of children to be born and later abandoned in orphanages
They're working on it for us. South Dakota's legislature plans to outlaw abortion. Next will be contraception.
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Well we don't have a country run by a dictatorship that decides to raise the population by forbidding all forms of contraception/abortion, and then causing large numbers of children to be born and later abandoned in orphanages. Read up on what went on in Romania in the late 60's through the 80's. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4630855.stm[^] ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
no you don't. on the other hand: - contraception was not illegal - few kids born in those times are still up for adoption I have a colleague and friend who tried to adopt a second child (this happens in Australia. They already have a daughter of their own but health issues don't offer more pleasant alternatives) The amount of trouble he had to go through brought back kind memories of the dictatorship you mentioned (I left Romania in '99). My friend failed in the end. It took him more than 2 years to give up, and it's not like there are no kids needing adoptive parents here in Australia. The only problem is that he cannot blame it on Ceausescu or dictatorship. OGR