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POPSWhat the ????? Why doesn't she just have a baby or adopt a child instead of humiliating a primate?
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POPSNorway Joins Ranks of the Enlightened: Allows Gay Marriage & Adoption Good for them. I wonder if the USA will join the enlightened in the next decade or two. I think not. Our Puritanism still blights our thinking and conscience. But, then, I didn't think I'd see the day an African American would be the nominee for President of a major political party. But it is happening. Change, as it were, can have its own momentum, sweep us up and deposit us in places we never anticipated.
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POPSArtecnica - design with conscience Our challenge is to develop a competitive product that will encourage the survival of indigenous craft. Fulfilling this mission requires a smart designer, a savvy and visionary project producer, and a willing and ambitious artisan. Our objective is to avoid the mechanization of the artisan, which devalues his work and undermines the project from both a design and an economic standpoint.
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POPS1-child policy has exceptions after China quake Though commonly called a one-child policy, the rules offer a welter of exceptions and loopholes, some of them put into practice because of widespread opposition to the limits. For example, in large parts of rural China, most families are allowed a second-child, especially if the first was a girl. Local officials often have wide discretion on enforcement, a fact that has made the policy susceptible to corruption. Many Chinese have shown interest in adopting earthquake orphans, and Monday's announcement says there are no limits on the number of earthquake orphans a family can adopt. The adoptions, or even a future birth to a family that adopts an orphan, will not face the limitations of the one-child policy. Officials estimated last week that the quake left about 4,000 orphans, but they warned they would make every effort to connect children with other family members.
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POPSScientism: the new moral order Please read the article and accept the clip and comment as an invitation to do so. (For myself, I am dismayed at how in recent years the debate on all sides about issues of morality have been termed in pseudoscientific 'objectivity')
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POPSChildren's disorders visited on parents But diagnosing an adult through his or her child has its risks, psychiatrists say. In an act of solidarity, parents may exaggerate similarities between their thinking and behavior and their son’s or daughter’s. Families desperate to find a diagnosis for a troubled child are also prone to adopt a vague label — bipolar disorder, say, which is not well understood in young children — and attribute all variety of difficulties to it, when the real source may be elsewhere.
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POPSUtah Votes on School Vouchers Private schools do a better job for less money than our government run schools. I would say that everyone deserves the option to get vouchers.
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POPSMythos Justifies Pathos So, this surreal story has turned into a media spectacle, but it strikes me as sad, since it is being used by everyone to fulfill different cultural metanarratives that all happen to intersect at a single point in space and time. The Koreans are using it to illustrate Filial Piety and the importance of loyalty to blood relations (a national mania). Americans (including Christians who adopt children to indoctrinate them) feel smugly superior because we saved him from the pitiful life led by all those non-Americans. He fulfills his narrative of finding a physical source for his being. However, the post-modern punchline is that the "Daddy" failed the DNA tests. The two aren't even related! All of these different metanarratives we created are just delusions that superficially satisfy our desire for the confirmation of our presumptions and prejudices! Mythos justifies Pathos.
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POPSRate of foreign adoptions in Ireland one of Europe's highest The Trinity College research examined the experiences of 180 children aged between two and 17 who have been adopted from abroad. The report found that children were 17 months old when adopted, 80 per cent had spent some time in institutional care and they came from 15 different countries. Given the conditions in which they had typically spent their earliest months or years, the study found that most children had made an "extraordinary recovery".
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POPSFor Mary Cheney, It's a Boy! At a New York forum last winter, Mary Cheney said: "This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate by people on either side of an issue. It is my child." But she added that "every piece of remotely responsible research" had shown "no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents."
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POPSDon't like your adopted child? Trade her in for another one. Something about this strikes me as very wrong, but also very understandable and perhaps even rational. Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution . See also this New York Times piece written by a mother in a similar situation--she and her husband made a different decision than the New Jersey couple.
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POPSThe Catholic Governor of Colorado Sees the Light It seems progress is being made to fairness and sanity. People are beginning to realize that there are many children without parents longing to be loved and these children don't care of their perspective loving parents are gay or straight or somewhere inbetween. They just want to be loved and protected and cared for. The old black magic of "gay parents will make their children gay" is being shown for how stupid beliefs such as these actually are.
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POPSPakistani babies left by the roadside Of the children who are abandoned, or those who run away from home to escape grinding poverty, it is only a very small number like Zeenat who find love, shelter and comfort elsewhere. For others, life remains grim and there is no evidence the number of such abandoned children is on the decline, with more landing up in streets or in cradles with each passing day in the absence of governmental strategies to address the matter effectively and swiftly.
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POPSAngelina Jolie To Adopt for Third Time I don't know her personally, but to me she seems to be very caring to her children and I think that the fact that she wants to adopt again only shows that she has love to give to another child, which I think is a very generous gesture, and not the result of some "adoption trend"... Good luck to her !
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POPS Delhi plans orphanages to adopt abandoned girls "Prenatal sex-determination tests are outlawed in India and the government says it is clamping down on doctors flouting the law. But social activists say there are many loopholes which allow those who provide tests to remain free."
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POPSMichigan Woman Charged With Murder After Baby Found In Trash Can I've had 3 miscarriages and my daughter was a traumatic birth. I can't have anymore children and she's just bashing this poor child's skull in and literally throwing it away. Breaks my heart. I hate reading this stuff. If people don't want their baby's so badly, I'd LOVE to adopt it. Sometimes I just don't understand this world.
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