Adoption is so wonderful! But I know from experience many are very opposed to it. I worked as a child advocate and these folks would keep a child with an axe murderer just b/c she was the "natural" mother.
I just have a problem with SOME in the pro-life movement who thinks it ends with the child's birth. The whole picture needs to be examined. What do you do with a welfare mother who keeps popping out kids? She's not going to stop having sex, you can't sterilize her. It infuriates me.
"What do you do with a welfare mother who keeps popping out kids? She's not going to stop having sex, you can't sterilize her. It infuriates me."
I think more people born is a good thing. They can grow up to be valuable members of society.. assuming our school system was better. And by the children creating value for the society, it also gives the mother value. In the same way that a stay at home mom is valuable to society.
The only difference between a welfare mother and a stay at home mother, is only one person is subsidizing the woman and children in the stay at home case. Where as every tax payer is subsidizing the welfare mother.
To this, there are no easy answers. I wish there were a compassionate way to restigmatize single-motherhood. Not all single mothers, before anyone gets out the flame thrower. Certainly not the children born into these situations.