The most important job in our country is to be a good, loving parent. Yet,
we too often take this job for granted. Yet we pay loud mouth baseball
players, boxers and basketball players enormous sums of $. That shows where
this country's value are! Very sad, indeed.

Bobby


>yes, i agree that something needs to be done to encourage adoption of older
>children and especially the special needs children. educate people to both
>the hardship and the rewards and you'd have some (not everybody) that would
>step up and say the rewards outweigh the hardships. you know i should speak
>to randy and gloria, they might just need to have it pointed out to them.
>they do strick me as one of the posibilities for a special needs child.
>thanks for reminding me of this.
>
>and keeping in mind one of trisha's post, there are lots of kids with
>families that are in need of more love than they are getting. seems like
>there is so much going on to distract us from our children. i may never get
>to the top of the latter, but, my children know who their dad is and that i
>spend time with them. to a child time=love more than things=love.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Elizabeth H. Thiers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:43 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Great news
>
>
>Actually, there are lots of wonderful children waiting to be adopted.  The
>problem is they are children and not babies anymore.  Here in Florida there
>is a waiting list for special needs children a mile long.  Not too many
>takers though.  If you have friends wanting to adopt, send them to Florida.
>Still takes up to a year to finalize but, there are lots of children in need
>of love.
>
>
>Beth the OT
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Barber, Kenneth L.
>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 6:30 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Great news
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>
>well, mag, if more babys were adopted instead of aborted then it goes with
>out saying, that the abortion clinics would not make as much money. an yes,
>there are people out there wanting to adopt lots of the babies if they were
>carried to term and the damned governments would not make it so hard to
>adopt. i have a friend that went to russia and adopted two kids and i have a
>friend that is in china now to adopt because it is just so hard to do here.
>i have another friend who has adopted 3 kids here and paid a fortune in
>legal fees and an eternaty in time doing it and another friend who has been
>waiting for years to get a kid. need i continue? none of these would make a
>payment to the abortion clinics. more adoption = less abortion = less money.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Magenta Raine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 9:57 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Great news
>
>
>ken, i fail to see how adoption hurts the abortion industry.
>
>m.