What do you think about people giving their children away for adoption?

Well I still am standing with my opinion because they could have prevented themselves from getting pregnant. They didn't think about how the child would feel when he/ she grew up knowing that they were an unwanted child. I think that this situation can be completely avoidable.

Well obviously people make mistakes but I think someone who makes the decision to get pregnant and give away their kids...well...that's a really BIG mistake( hopefully you understand what I'm inferring since I do not want to say it here in mylot). I too know that this world isn't perfect for if it were the word "perfect" would be undefinable. For example people wouldn't understand what good was if their wasn't evil. So I'm sure everyone knows that this world isn't perfect but still making a mistake like getting pregnant with children who will be given away...well saying that was a mistake would really be illogical and very ignorant of the person who claims it to be a mistake....it would just be a very horrible excuse. I'm not saying that women who get pregnant as teenagers are wrong. I'm just saying that women who get pregnant, knowing they can't afford to provide for their child, and give away their child when he/she is born should be seen as horrible people. See I don't think you understand the concept I'm trying to establish here. Oh ya and I never specifically said that hispanics are the only ones who get pregnant, I just said it's very common for a teenager to have a child in school here because we are of low class and because many hispanics tend to be catholic and catholics believe abortions are a great sin. We treasure life. Currently I think of myself as somewhat of a social outcast but because I choose too. I don't like to get close to any one or share other things. Despite having lost a friend when I was 6( he got ran over on his skateboard by a drunkie) and then again when I was 11( he got shot) I never got desperate for trying to feel normal. I would never be so desperate as to go off and get pregnant. I really don't appreciate how you referred to the boy with Epilepsy in your statement. You made him sound as if he were inferior since you mentioned that you became desperate so you resorted to a boy with Epilepsy. Anyways I really think you proved my point with the last few statements you mentioned. Women who aren't ready for kids should avoid getting pregnant because they'll end up aborting them or giving them up for adoption, which I think is far worse. Like I mentioned before women who give up their children shouldn't deserve to give birth.

Okay, when went to school things were different from what they are now. Things are drastically different. People didn't like me going out and dating a guy with Epilepsy because of the stigma that come with Epilepsy, I also dated him because people were calling me a Lesbian, and I wasn't, not to say that being a Lesbian was bad, but I went to a high school with a lot of Christians and Catholics, and you know how they like to talk. I know that he was good person, but try proving that to people back then, especially purists. They won't understand. I am sure that you know who purists are, right? People who think that the world has to be a certain way. Okay, the high school that I went to was filled with a lot purists. But again, you prove my point too, and you don't understand. You don't get it. The women who give up their children for adoption have made the lives of parents who can't have children wonderful. There are so many parents who cannot have children, and when someone who cannot take care of a child gives them up for adoption, it's the greatest gift they can give them. I had a cousin who diagnosed with Lupus, and she couldn't have children. She wanted children so badly, and a woman who gave birth to two children, who could not take care of them, made my cousin extremely happy. My cousin loves who two children, and she doesn't care that they aren't her's by blood, she treats them like they are her own. Now, I am not saying that it is right for teens to get pregnant, but if they do, adoption is available and there are many women out there who want a baby and can't have one.

You did the right thing blue65packer. You looked out for the best interest of the child. That's what love is. You gave him a good life.

Yes I agree there are some instances in which putting one's child up for adoption is justified. For example the lifestyle that the child will be born into might change into something not suitable for the child. In that case I believe it is ok for a mother to give away her child. Although I don't think it's good when a mother just keeps on having children and gives them all away without a second thought.

I agree with you too...Parents should consider before having a child. I just hate it how there are some people out there who know they can't afford a child and go off and get pregnant. So they end up giving away their child for adoption. I think though that sometimes a child benefits from being given away and being adopted. For example parents who become abusive and things like that but that's a different discussion. Anyways thank you for your reasons.

Yes I think it's really wrong for someone to give away their child because they are embarrassed and everyone needs to understand the notion of responsibility. Most people always try to find an easy way out and in some situations it can be by an individual giving away their child. In which case, it is very wrong. Although, I disagree with your second statement. I really think that an individual must think if they will be able to afford the necessities of a child before they commit the process of making a child.

There is actually mothers out there who are happy to give away their children because they know it will burden them. I have heard stories of this everyone and even from friends. There is still the fact that a child can be feel as though they were unwanted because their parents gave them up and the child was born at a time when the parents were financially unstable. That's why it's best for people to wait to have kids especially teens. Every year teens at my school get pregnant and it frustrates me how they can't make good choices. I know that peer pressure has a lot to do with pregnancy but still it's not very hard to make a choice that will change your life.