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"After I came home from the hospital, I said a prayer every night. And at the end, I would ask God to take care of my baby. God answered my prayers, because she wound up with the most wonderful parents. Her father was not a doctor, like Catholic Charities told me. It was better. He was a music teacher. All of the children played instruments. They
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*head tilt* The blurb doesn't really mention money. But I will say this...when you can afford basic necessities for your family and have money left over, then it is a lot easier to be happy XD There is a reason why we both want to stay at least firmly middle-class.
Speaking of happiness, this blurb makes me happy <3 So many people are detractors of adoption, including pregnant mothers who are like "I'd rather abort than give my baby up for adoption!" (which induces a whole new level of RAGE in me) that to see a wonderful little story about what looks like an open adoption warms my little heart <33
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It wasn't an open adoption--it was closed (the woman's child eventually tracked her down), and actually was an uncharacteristically positive anecdote in a book full of sad stories about women who basically had their kids taken from them when they gave birth pre-Roe v Wade--social workers would threaten to saddle the women with huge medical bills if they didn't sign the papers and such. :\ The moral of the story isn't a pro-Roe one, though, nor is it an anti-adoption one. It doesn't come down on anybody's side at all. The point the book drives home is that it's cruel to coerce a woman into giving up a child she wanted and could have taken care of with even a minimal amount of assistance, and that a society which heaps shame upon unwed mothers bears responsibility for that coercion.
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Adoption seems like a situation highly fraught with emotions--it is basically the transaction of someone's child, after all, and in such a situation there are bound to be people who get very, very, very hurt. Birth-mothers who sign the papers without thinking the decision through and wind up regretting it, and such.
That doesn't mean that the system's existence isn't good or necessary, and I feel it is both. *tilts head* I... feel like this is kind of obvious? I don't really know what to say other than that, because... wrell... what else would you do with infants whose families couldn't/wouldn't take care of them? o.O
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