It does sound much better. Life sure can get complicated. What's complicated, really? If I had my druthers, I'd set up a relatively simple adoption system: newborn babies go in one queue. Prospective adoptive parents go in another queue after some pre-screening. Then, as long as neither queue is empty, take the first item from each queue and pair them up.
It is abominable that despite the existence of waiting lists to adopt, many newborn babies still have to wait a long time to be adopted. I'm sure some liberals love that, but the reasons aren't ones I would consider legitimate:
- The queues of babies awaiting adoption generate increased revenue for the agencies handling them.
- The queues of babies awaiting adoption are used to justify abortion.
- Blocking the adoption of black babies by white parents will help prevent the raising of black conservatives, who would be poison to liberals.
- If black babies are left in queue while white babies are adopted, liberals can accuse white parents of racism, even if it's the liberals that block the adoptions.
My wife was adopted; I think her parents got her about a week after she was born (I'd have to check the home movies again to see if they give the exact date). Unfortunately, the media has persuaded many people that if they have an unwanted pregnancy it's more "responsible" to kill their baby than let someone else have it. Glad that wasn't the case in 1971.