And I Think To Myself
Yes its the last day of February. No I havent heard anything. For all of you that picked dates in February, you lose. Currently, Christin is the only one still in the running hoping for the week of March 12. I’d still prefer today.
But lets not talk about that. Something else.
Part of the adoption process is being approved by the United States government as parents. It was pretty empowering to receive a letter in the mail stating that we are approved to parent a child. And my first thought was “Every parent should need approval! Adopting or not.” But then I started thinking about how impossible that would be. And how I wouldnt want the government that involved in every person’s life. I mean, would they monitor every pregnancy? Would birthparents not have rights to their child until they were approved? Yeah, it got complicated fast, and I stopped thinking about it.
But recently, I’ve been reading a lot of articles about a lot of crazy parents that, had we had such a thing, would hopefully not have been deemed able to parent.
Take the woman that recently traded her infant son for a car and some cash. I’m serious. Or the mom that had her two children fake retardation to get social security checks. No joke.
While I still think the whole parenting approval by the government thing to be a bit crazy, there has got to be some way to stop these morons from procreating….