Child Adoption
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Jerry Hammond wrote:
In the mid to late 19th century in this country that is how many cities handled the "orphan problem".
Sounds similar to the Victorian workhouses as depicted in Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist.
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It is similar except that their were trainloads of children shipped to the mid-west to work on farms...a very docile and cheap work force.
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Yes and I would like to.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Nope, married last January and got 3 step-children/6 grand-step children in the deal. Wouldnt have it any other way:-D
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I agree with you, but if you can get over the blood line issue, there are actually many benefits for adoption. Such as the female do not have to carry the baby for 10 months, and because for most adoption, by the time you got the baby, the baby is already 6+ months old, the baby's most troubling and high-risk period had passed. -- modified at 6:34 Sunday 12th November, 2006
[I should have realised someone else would see the same analogy just a post or two down....] Its a bit like buying a young second hand car. Someone else has already dealt with the driving off the forecourt depreciation, and initial [*] mechanical problems... Iain. [*] I almost said 'teething problems', just to prove it's a decent analogy.