Yeah and a person reacting to anger about a person's suffering whose family could afford to employ a person just to make sure their estranged daughter is taken care of with "Well, maybe she was a drug addict" also reveals their colors as the assholes they are.
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There is no such thing as not wanting help. There is not wanting help as long as it is bound to conditions.
I mentioned these people because your support is conditional only. You'll help your nephew in this case if he gets clean. If he can't, won't or doesn't want to you are fine with him dying in the streets since in your opinion that was his own choosing and you have done all you could. That's not true. You could support…
You'd rather have your nephew live in desperation on his own before you'd help him even if he never got clean.
Your brother's offer sounds like it's awfully nice for him. He's his father. That's what he's supposed to do.
I actually just read a piece about the fucked up business of Western people coming and adopting African children like Madonna stealing that boy who still had family. The African (generalizing several cultures into one here because I can't remember where exactly it took place) concept of adoption is giving your child…
Yes, I do. Especially because it means less than a speck of nothing to them.
In our society if there is to be made money with something this will inevitably happen. In my experience the people looking at you shocked are people who like to believe in fantasies without ever critically thinking about the complexities behind everything.
Well, I just discovered that this is the facebook picture of a successful German politician so that tells you a bit about how you can lose an election for being anti-tobacco over here. I couldn't fathom an American politician having that picture.
Not at all but the commenter made the case of international Asian adoption. Adopting Ukranian children would be the same thing. I also mentioned the slave work ring that inner US adoption has led to (there is horrific information about that).
"Showing how we wouldn't tolerate such systematic treatment of men in real life, so why do we tolerate it when it comes to women"
That is a specific case that serves an example of a much larger problematic that is much more than just random cases. Specifically, this case of Evangelical missionary adoption is a movement.
So are you at a 'well, if she had only worked hard enough/been good enough/smart enough/whatever she could have it's her own fault' ideology.
Lark is testimony to that then.
My blood boils just thinking about it.
I'm not principally against adoption but against your narrative that even though these children have been brought into a horrible situation that is somehow an argument for adoption being the best possible thing that could have happened to them. Including the type of 'collecting rainbow children to feel good about…
How about supporting an infrastructure and enabling the economical development of countries that enables children to be raised in their own communities instead of selling them to white people with a savior complex. Adoption isn't a life saver. It's also a very ugly industry of buying and selling children (many of whom…
Wrong comment, not for you. I agree that they didn't care for their adopted children once they were actual people.
Previn didn't give a shit about Lark either, she was his daughter.