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[violachic]

I know this is going to sound really harsh, and I know that there are people who will disagree with me, but I very firmly believe that in this day and age, with the number of children out there who desperately need good homes, it is downright unethical for people to have eighteen natural-born children. If every child is a blessing, why can't you go adopt a dozen or so who already exist?

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[disappearinjon.livejournal.com]

Well, I absolutely don't disagree with you, but it's also not as though there are a lot of healthy infants up for adoption -- as the recent revelations in re third-world adoptions demonstrate.

And, sad as it may be, adopting a child older than three or four years old is usually much more challenging due to the trauma caused by the reasons the child is up for adoption.

Still, eighteen is insane and selfish. No argument there.