I wonder when. . .
I got a phone recently from someone wanting to know if I or anyone I knew wanted a baby. The mother needed surgery and the father would need help taking care of their other six children, so if we could pay this one amount the baby could be ours.
I had to tell her, but we can't pay money to take someone's baby. Even though I know people who would love to take care of this baby and would do a really good job raising this baby.
I wonder when we will stop selling children. I wonder when we will stop buying children in this world.
A couple days later I found out when we said no they sent the baby to live with a rich family in another city. My friend didn't know how much was paid for her.
How sad this little baby will grow up not knowing any of her brothers or sisters.
I know kids in these situations.
I know children who have been adopted into wonderful families, but to do so had to leave siblings behind. And really, the choice wasn't theirs to makes or even the adopted family's. Cause I am almost positive if they had known they would have taken his twin brother too. Oh, I hope they find each other someday.
I have a boy with at least two younger siblings, a brother and a sister, but we can't find them, cause we don't know his dad.
I know children who were adopted, learned their new language and spoke of the family they left behind.
I know children who were adopted and shortly after the birth mother came back to check on how she was doing. She was glad for her. But how her heart must have been breaking.
I know children who were taken to an orphanage while the younger half of the family got to stay at home.
I know kids who were too sick or too small or it was too late to be able to help them and they just didn't make it.
And I wonder when we will realize this great gift we have in raising the future. It is not a hypothetical thing. Each generation takes a turn raising the next. Do we like who we are raising them to be? Do we believe we are raising them to have good values when we deem it okay to pass them off to someone else, cause they can do a better job? Cause I don't want the responsibility? Cause what is more important - a family or that chance for education? Cause what really teaches them how to live in our world?
I wonder when children will be treated like the prize they are and the future they are. For all our futures.
I had to tell her, but we can't pay money to take someone's baby. Even though I know people who would love to take care of this baby and would do a really good job raising this baby.
I wonder when we will stop selling children. I wonder when we will stop buying children in this world.
A couple days later I found out when we said no they sent the baby to live with a rich family in another city. My friend didn't know how much was paid for her.
How sad this little baby will grow up not knowing any of her brothers or sisters.
I know kids in these situations.
I know children who have been adopted into wonderful families, but to do so had to leave siblings behind. And really, the choice wasn't theirs to makes or even the adopted family's. Cause I am almost positive if they had known they would have taken his twin brother too. Oh, I hope they find each other someday.
I have a boy with at least two younger siblings, a brother and a sister, but we can't find them, cause we don't know his dad.
I know children who were adopted, learned their new language and spoke of the family they left behind.
I know children who were adopted and shortly after the birth mother came back to check on how she was doing. She was glad for her. But how her heart must have been breaking.
I know children who were taken to an orphanage while the younger half of the family got to stay at home.
I know kids who were too sick or too small or it was too late to be able to help them and they just didn't make it.
And I wonder when we will realize this great gift we have in raising the future. It is not a hypothetical thing. Each generation takes a turn raising the next. Do we like who we are raising them to be? Do we believe we are raising them to have good values when we deem it okay to pass them off to someone else, cause they can do a better job? Cause I don't want the responsibility? Cause what is more important - a family or that chance for education? Cause what really teaches them how to live in our world?
I wonder when children will be treated like the prize they are and the future they are. For all our futures.
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