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LETTERS, Page 8WANT A BABY?
"Who has a greater need than an innocent child without a home?"
Rick Frankhouser
Lancaster, Pa.
As someone who was adopted into a loving family (LIVING, Oct.
9), I am interested not in locating and possibly disturbing members
of my natural family but in having what every adopted child
deserves: a medical history. I resent being the end product of an
unknown formula, especially when with advance knowledge many health
problems can be prevented.
Mary Jones-Gaston
La Canada-Flintridge, Calif.
Twenty years ago, we adopted a son, and three years later, a
daughter. A sustained relationship with a birth mother would not
have worked for me. You need to bond with your children, establish
a family identity and learn through your own mistakes without a
birth mother waiting to step into your role. In the early years,
I would have feared that my children might be taken away.
Sandra Lippe
San Diego
Since I am a birth mother myself, I am aware of those who are
searching for the children they gave up for adoption. But there
must also be many like me. I would never intrude upon the adoptive
family, not because I don't care, but because I care very much. To
my daughter's parents I say, Just raise her and love her. She is
yours, and you are hers. I am not lurking in the shrubbery.
Nancy T. Johnson
Dresden, Me.
I am one of the "amputees," a birth mother searching for the
child I gave up more than 28 years ago. My daughter has not yet
signed on with one of the search registries and I wonder: Is she
so happy she feels no need to seek me out? Has she died? Is she
getting even? I am tormented by these and other painful questions.
Grace J. Harstad
San Mateo, Calif.
Why do people feel it is the duty of young unwed mothers to
supply the country with healthy white infants? It is not criminal
for a girl to accept Medicaid and welfare in order to keep her
baby. More should be done to enable mothers to raise their own
children instead of trying to lead them down the path to adoption.
Susan Kent Berrier
Carlisle, Pa.
A white couple willing to "go to the ends of the earth" for an
Asian baby while rejecting a black child in the U.S. needs to look
deep inside and think about what kind of nation it is building.
Roger Phillips
Dallas