adoptive Parents
A study, published in the new issue of the American Sociological Review, found that couples who adopt spend more money on their children and invest more time on such activities as reading to them, eating together and talking with them about their problems.
But thats not the most intriguing part for me. check this conclusion out:
"One of the reasons adoptive parents invest more is that they really want children, and they go to extraordinary means to have them," Indiana University sociologist Brian Powell, one of the study's three co-authors, said.
story link here
The implication here, to me anyway is, that "natural" parents far too often dont give their chilrden the love or attention they need or deserve. perhaps because far too often the children were less than wanted, less than expected / anticipated / planned etc. Just another (good) reason NOT to have children before your ready and WANT them. Children shouldnt be "accidents" yet far too often thats exactly what they are.
posted by D. Coder | 6:48 AM
2 Comments:
I couldn't agree more... "planning for your children is the best way to go..."
Now granted, you can plan all you want and "things" can go wrong (lose yr jb etc.) in this wrld we lve in, however, at least you did the best you could before all that stuff (maybe) happened!
I believe in planning... Children are not "things" - they are far TOO IMPT to just be an "oops (crap shoot)"!
…sad…if this is the attitude of the majority I would say this “attitude” is the ROOT of many of our problems!
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