Longtime volunteer with a breed specific dog rescue, who has adopted two and fostered many golden retrievers from said rescue, and who does the “home visits” for prospective adopters: If you’ve expressed interest in a used golden retriever, you’re about 98% of the way to being approved to adopt one. Seriously. Folks…

The folks who desperately want to acquire somebody else’s kid? Ideally somebody else’s white, womb-fresh, newborn baby? Who write “Dear Birthmother” letters to pregnant ladies, despite knowing full well that (1) a pregnant lady is just that, a pregnant lady until (2) she gives birth AND relinquishes her child?