Pound Pup Legacy

This one cracks me up, given the nature of adoption avocation.

Let's break families (convince unwed mothers that married parents have better love to offer her unborn child), and sell that as Family Values.

Never-mind if future adoptive mom is an alcoholic on hiatus and future adoptive dad is a closet pedophile (or vice-versa). According to the joint-bank account, application, and promising adoption agency, the petitioning couple is married and interested in raising and loving a child who needs two parents.  Sounds good enough, doesn't it?  After all, a promise is a promise, isn't it?  In the world of contract agreements, money talks, and ink binds.

Thank God for responsible investigations and thorough long-term follow-up care for another woman's child placed among strangers.

For what it's worth:  I would have rather been with a single-mother and have an extended family that had members who could have loved me, than be with a miserable couple, and among strangers who didn't know or seem to like me, growing up.  As a kid, I knew, marriage means nothing if it's in name-only.  (Kids may be keep quiet, but that doesn't mean they're stupid.)