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« on: April 25, 2007, 12:47:34 pm »

Just caught this in More Magazine, page 55, "This is What 47 Looks Like" (...yeah right, only if you were absolutely gorgeous and perfect at 30).

Lisa Berkley lives on a 30 acre farm in Penn.

Here's what she says about Family:  "When my daughter was four, she said she wanted a little sister from China.  It got me thinking.  Why not use my time and energy to help another human being?  Now, my daughter is 11, and we're adopting a girl from China next Spring."

Mmm...what came first?  The Martyr/Charity complex or the desire to have another daughter?  Or wait, she doesn't really want another child....she just wants a Chinese sister for her kid...who asked very nicely for one.  And why Chinese, exactly?  Did she see one on a TV show or does somebody else "have one" at pre-school?   Or maybe Chinese girls are supposed to be obedient and studious, unlike our thousands of domestic children in foster care in desperate need for a good home, in probably the same state, who could probably use some of Lisa's "energy to help another human being."

I think this is why some of us are suspicious of (some) motives to adopt.  This need to publicize the helping/saving aspect. 
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2007, 01:02:38 pm »

Just caught this in More Magazine, page 55, "This is What 47 Looks Like" (...yeah right, only if you were absolutely gorgeous and perfect at 30).

Lisa Berkley lives on a 30 acre farm in Penn.

Here's what she says about Family:  "When my daughter was four, she said she wanted a little sister from China.  It got me thinking.  Why not use my time and energy to help another human being?  Now, my daughter is 11, and we're adopting a girl from China next Spring."



 

Sounds to me like her daughter got the ultimate cabbage patch kid.  Must be something that the other kids in school have...little Chinese siblings, with their dark mysterious eyes. 

Yes, why don't we all "save" a poor unfortunate little Chinaling?  It's the golden stairway to heaven for sure, isn't it?

 
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2007, 02:23:45 pm »

Just caught this in More Magazine, page 55, "This is What 47 Looks Like" (...yeah right, only if you were absolutely gorgeous and perfect at 30).

Lisa Berkley lives on a 30 acre farm in Penn.

Here's what she says about Family:  "When my daughter was four, she said she wanted a little sister from China.  It got me thinking.  Why not use my time and energy to help another human being?  Now, my daughter is 11, and we're adopting a girl from China next Spring."

Mmm...what came first?  The Martyr/Charity complex or the desire to have another daughter?  Or wait, she doesn't really want another child....she just wants a Chinese sister for her kid...who asked very nicely for one.  And why Chinese, exactly?  Did she see one on a TV show or does somebody else "have one" at pre-school?   Or maybe Chinese girls are supposed to be obedient and studious, unlike our thousands of domestic children in foster care in desperate need for a good home, in probably the same state, who could probably use some of Lisa's "energy to help another human being."

I think this is why some of us are suspicious of (some) motives to adopt.  This need to publicize the helping/saving aspect. 



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