Totally inappropriate footwear and my damp feet!
In reality, I don’t have sense enough to wear boots to work on a drizzly, chilly day when there’s still two feet of snow piled everywhere from the weekend blizzard! To paraphrase the observation of a wise man very dear to me, sometimes it seems that the more education I get…
I was researching something I was writing today when I came across a compelling article by Pearl S. Buck “The Children Waiting: The Shocking Scandal of Adoption,” published in the September 1955 issue of Woman’s Home Companion. 1955 was after World War II and the Korean War. During both those conflicts there had been many American troops stationed in Asia who, as the euphemism put it, “had needs.” The needs of the Asian women who satisfied them mattered less, and many were left behind with child.
At that time adoptions were handled largely by sectarian religious institutions and the children were placed into families that “matched” them in terms of race, religion, and other characteristics. This meant a lot of children, especially those of mixed race parents, were simply not adoptable. They spent their lives in institutions until they could fend for themselves.
Buck saw the injustice of this. Moreover, having adopted several children herself, she new that not all potential parents shopped for children as if they were furniture or shoes.
Two babies came [to me] from adoption agencies, where they were considered unadoptable because it was difficult to find adoptive parents to “match” them. I was sure that there must be good families, matching or not, who could love these babies and indeed there were. . . .
An interesting bit of trivia. More United States Presidents have come from Virginia than any other state, important ones, too. Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Wilson among them. Here is the list. Only Ohio comes close, with seven Presidents. And it has to be said that they are not exactly standouts, the likes of Harding, Taft, Hayes and Impotence Shots orden 50mg viagra Impotence Shots or Injections- Impotence injections came into existence back in the 1990’s. The pharmaceutical viagra professional for sale companies that manufacture branded medicines invest much money and time in discovering a new formula. Some prescriptions will be designed to treat straight clinical depression, while others will work to relieve manic depression. cheap viagra Pregnancy cialis soft and breastfeeding must also be taken into account. Garfield. Maybe it was the number of presidents from Virginia that my mother had in mind when she used to tell me I could become President one day and take me to visit the homes of those men. It’s a lot to live up to and I am afraid it is abundantly clear that I am destined to disappoint.