pro-lifers, how many children have you adopted, or provided foster care to?

Question

Especially, how many unwanted children have you adopted...those with special needs, etc...

Wouldn't you accomplish more if you took the time, energy and money that you spend protesting abortion clinics, and actually adopted an unwanted child?

I guess it is easier to hold a sign, then to provide care to these children. WWJD?

Answer 1

i am not particularly pro-life, but my mother definitely is, and to answer your question, she has adopted one and fostered countless more throughout the last 23 years. and not only that, but she deliberately handpicks the ones that nobody else wants foster or adopt to bring into her home. thats how she ended up adopting a five-year-old so disabled that nobody else would take him, and if it hadn't been for her he would have spent his life in an institution, because thats where they were planning on sending him. the kids she fosters are usually disabled as well, usually developmentally. and thats on top of having six biological children of her own.

i think you are forgetting that even though women SHOULD have the right to choose, abortion is still an evil. that can't be denied. just as the pro-choice group needs to be around to protect and fight for the mother, so also does the pro-life side need to be around to protect and fight for the fetus. just because it does not have any rights in our society does not mean it does not deserve at least somebody to stand up for it. it may not be a person but it is still a life, an innocent life, and no innocent life should ever be discarded without a fight, even though the ultimate choice is and should be in the hands of the mother. those kids that my mother takes on deserved the chance at life. they deserved having at least one person to want them before they were born, just as they deserve having her there to want them after they are born.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I have provided foster care at one time or another for at least a dozen children - sometimes for 2-3 days, sometimes for 2-3 years. I have also made donations to charities that provide for orphans. Adoption is a long and difficult process, and the birth mother has something like a year to change her mind. THAT is a big problem for many. My niece and her husband adopted a child that they had in their foster care since he was about two weeks old. They were on pins & needles until that date finally came when the mother had no further claim on her son. It's a very emotionally difficult time for EVERYONE - but well worth it in the end. Foster care agencies will provide funds for the foster children. I never took them - the foster child I had for 3 years was my own niece who had been physically abused by her mother. We aren't rich by any means, but we were financially able to take her in and it didn't seem right to take money for it.

WWJD? He would walk in LOVE, not judgment. Which is why I also don't believe in judging women who are having abortions. I may not agree with abortion (except for extreme circumstances where the mother's life may be in danger or in cases of rape /incest) - but first of all, I don't know the circumstances or the heart of the person having the abortion, and secondly, I serve a God who knows ALL. Does anyone who truly believes in God really think He doesn't KNOW the child will be aborted when He places it in the womb? His word says He knew us in our mother's womb, and it says He even knows the number of hairs on our head. There is a reason for everything....we may not know what it is, but we have limited view. GOD sees the WHOLE picture.

Answer 4

Have you not noticed the trend is a dramatic increase in Christian fostering and adopting, particularly in the areas of Special Needs?

Finally, the Church (corporately) is beginning to act like Christ in this area, seeing that it is not enough to quote scripture and principle and turn a blind eye to the women and children in crisis.

THANK YOU for being a part of the solution by pointing this out.

Now, may I ask, since Roe V Wade came down over 30 years ago, why hasn't the availability of abortion fixed the whole issue of "unwanted children?" They shouldn't even exist, should they? Why has child abuse and infanticide increased so much since then? (It is not practical or logical to blame even a significant portion on "better reporting.")

Answer 5

Pro choice, but, I'm too young to raise a child...would absolutely love to adopt!
Why bring more children into the world when there are plenty that need to be adopted. However, killing an innocent unborn child is not how to prevent over population.
Maybe sterilizing people like Paris Hilton will be a better solution.

Answer 6

Well, I work with moms to help them prepare for a career so they can care for their children. I also support those programs aimed at allowing a mom to continue their education while raising a child. There's a philosophy that says, give a person a fish, and they will eat a meal, teach them to fish and they can feed themselves and their families. Help them to build a fish hatchery and they can employ an entire community. That's what I want to do, help them to build the fish hatchery.

I absolutely hate the idea of abortion, but also hate the idea of overturning Roe V Wade because it will create more problems in the long run.

By the way, we take in teens into our house all the time who have bad family situations. These are the kids who probably need the most love and it's probably the last chance to help them. And we believe that is what Jesus would have us do.

Answer 7

I have children of my own.

If people would stop having sex every time they get an itch...there would be a lot less unwanted children.

Anyway...unwanted children are not the issue. All the children in foster care are not the result of the pro-life movement. Many of their parents never even considered an abortion. Children are often treated as possessions. Many of the kids in foster care are there because their parents committed crimes, or are on drugs. These children aren't around because someone was protesting at an abortion clinic. These kids were apparently wanted...and for whatever reasons their parents have them taken away.

So your reasoning is not sound.

Additionally, in the almost 40 years of legalized abortion...child abuse has gone up! Hmmmm, why is that? Because we have devalued the child by allowing them to be murdered, legally, by their own parents. So, all these abused children...were wanted children. I mean seeing as how abortion is legal that means all the kids born these days are wanted. So why are they abused? Why are there any children in foster care? Everyone has access to abortion...so again...your reasoning caves in on itself.

Answer 8

Our family was a foster family for years. We took in crack-addicted babies, alcohol babies, etc. There is no better feeling in the world to know that we helped these "neglected" children grow up to be responsible adults. If they had been aborted, they would never had the chance to be taken in by a loving family and shown that life is worth living.

There are thousands of people waiting to adopt. With abortion, they will have to wait even longer.

Answer 9

I'm actually pro-choice and pro-life; contrary to popular belief, it's possible to be both. I'm personally against abortion, but don't believe that my morals should be made the law of the land. I've actually offered to adopt if the mother would carry the baby to term. So, yeah, there are some people willing to stand up for what they believe.

Answer 10

"33% experienced homelessness 12-18 months after leaving foster care. 30% of the rustic’s homeless are former foster young ones" "37% had no longer complete extreme college" "37% have go through psychological illness" I grew to become 18 mutually as in foster care, the three I quoted above are the three I relatively have been via, I be afflicted by bi-polar and PTSD that are existence long emotional problems.... "fifty one% have been unemployed" i grew to become into unemployed, till i began out up my very own company.... human beings, those stats are no longer BS! I went via it, i understand what that's like, so while human beings inquire from me "How might you experience in the experience that your mothers and dads had aborted you?" I in basic terms answer "i might have favourite it over being born into an abusive domicile!"