I have always wondered why they don't pay for respite care.I, for one, disagree thoroughly with the practice of some wealthy families allowing their children to be raised by hirelings. I would rather hire servants for every other possible purpose in order to be given the time to raise my children.
If you're going to allow your children to be raised by strangers, interchangeable strangers, why would you even give them your family name in the first place?
Can't speak for her, but yes, I am fine with it. All available science shows that children raised by a committed homosexual couple do as well in every measure of childhood well-being as children raised by committed but unmarried heterosexuals. That, and the fact that homosexuals are already adopting children-- since we allow it for singles-- are the main reasons why I am not opposed to allowing homosexuals to legally marry.
You know, there are three main types of children that are practically unadoptable. There are older children, minority children, and defective children.
Ain't much we can about about older children, but increasing the pool of adoptive parents should help.
Avoiding any speculations of a racial nature, one of the major problems with minority children is that the majority of couples that are considered qualified to adopt are white and upper middle class. While there is the matter that many of them would prefer to adopt white children, there are many, many people who would be happy to adopt any healthy child-- and the law in most cases does not allow this, preferring to keep those children "among their own kind." Allow more people to adopt children across racial boundaries, and you will see many of these children adopted and many couples satisfied, when they would have been forced to continue to wait for a white baby.
There isn't much we can do about improving adoption rates among defective children. Frankly, I don't even think it is a good idea. They're just going to end up wards of the state again as soon as their parents can no longer support them.
WHAT IN PRAY TELL IS A DEFECTIVE CHILD?
One who is not "perfect?"
Why don't you ask the parents here of special needs kids if they consider their children "defective." Oh, and while you're at it, ask them when they think they will turn their children over to be 'wards of the state.'
Geez Freaking Lousie.
I have two special needs children and I can tell you, depending on the severity of the diability, many children are still given over to be wards of the state, many of them from two parent families as well. Of those raising kids with low function autism, we are one of the few that kept our son at home until he turned 21. He's still at home 3 days out of the week but thank the Lord we've found a good Adult Family Home for him. Sad thing is, if the state would have provided us with two weeks respite care a year, we wouldn't have put him in the AFH in the first place, and the AFH is costing the state a heck of a lot more than respite care would have.
I will also tell you that, having my son in that AFH has done wonders for my health, both mentally and physically. He's not a ward of the state though. I still have to do the paperwork, but we will be his legal guardians and should anything happen to us, my nephew will take over the job.