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Thread ID: 6094 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-04-10
2003-04-10 23:57 | User Profile
Why are the Bushââ¬â¢s so keen on adoptions?
By Joseph Sarandos
March 12, 2003
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For one of the reasons, George Jr. almost adopted some children, and Jeb actually did, from the largest, wealthiest and most politically-powerful, international maternity home/adoptions agency in the world; the Gladney Center in Fort Worth, Texas, which charges 20 to 30 thousand dollars per adoption, and is housed in a 67,000-square-foot, $17 million building complex.
George Sr. and Barbara Bush have very close ties to, and very close relations with Gladney, and with its very generous political lobbying arm; the NCFA.
George Jr. is also quite enamored with Gladney and the NFCA. So much that, after his successful campaign for the presidency, he arranged a 6.8 million dollar government grant back into the coffers of the NFCA. While still Governor of Texas back in 1997, Junior did the entire Child Protection/Adoptions System in Texas the great favor of pushing-through legislations that severely reduced the chances for biological parents to regain custody of their removed children, and that severely reduced the time it takes for the courts to free children for adoption. So effective were these new laws in Texas, that in fiscal year 1998, 1,548 abused and neglected children were adopted, a 107% increase over fiscal year 1996 when 746 were adopted. The favor to the System was in the fact that the Federal government pays the State-contracted adoptions agencies by the head for handling adoptions out of the Child Protection System. Gladney is the largest of such agencies.
As for brother Jeb, he boasted that funding for Florida's child welfare system had increased 94 percent in the first three years of his Governorship . The state's 2001 budget allocated $787.3 million for such services. In the same period, the number of child abuse investigations had increased 49 percent , from 128,260 in 1998 to a projected 191,031 in 2001. The number of children who were successfully placed out of foster homes within a year had grown to 35 percent. Three years earlier, the success rate in that time frame was less than 10 percent.
So; whatââ¬â¢s wrong with all that? Isnââ¬â¢t child adoption supposed to be a good and noble thing? Well, if you think so, youââ¬â¢d better take a quick look at these statistics:
ââ¬ÅOnly 16% of adopted children are placed in 2-parent homes, compared to 25% of non-adopted children in the general population." -2001 Release of 1996 US Census Study report by Jason Fields titled "Living Arrangements of Children."
ââ¬Å60-85% of internees at Coldwater Canyon Center For Personal Development, hospital/ psychiatric facility are adoptees; most were referrals from Juvenile Probation Dept.ââ¬Â -Dr. Lee Bloom, Former Unit Director Coldwater Canyon Hospital, Hollywood, CA; reported in "Growing Up Behind Locked Doors," Rolling Stone magazine, 11-20-86.
20-35% of internees at several hundred private psychiatric hospitals in 13 regions were adoptees.ââ¬Â -Betty Jean Lifton, at American Adoption Congress conference, 1988, from a report by an Illinois doctor.
*70% of internees at a Monroe, Washington psychiatric facility were adoptees. * -Reported to American Adoption Congress conference, 1988 by a Washington Adoptee Rights Movement (WARM) group whose meeting was attended by a Monroe counselor.
5-15% of patient load in mental clinics is the average reported figure for adoptees under psychiatric care, although official (government) statistics estimate only 2% of U.S. population are adoptees. (Theory: a child's ignorance of his past causes "genealogical bewilderment"/prone to dysfunction). *12% of adolescents and children in private therapy are adopted; * -"An Open Adoption," Lincoln Caplan, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY; as cited in Bottom Line, 9-15-90
14% of adoptees end up in therapy, and 40% of adoptees end up in schools for disturbed children (of the estimated 3% of the population who are adoptees). -Dr. Steven Nickman as quoted by Dr. Phyllis Chesler in "Scared Bond" (cited on Geraldo Show Transcript #225, 7-28-88)
40% of psychiatric internees surveyed were adoptees; adopted children have a higher rate of emotional and psychological problems than the general population of youngsters. -"Mothers On Trial," Dr. Phyillis Chesler, quoting Dr. William Murdoch, child psychologist at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Director, Charter Hospital-Redlands Child In-Patient Unit
13% of 69 firesetters were adoptees compared to a control group of non-firesetters which had only 3% adoptees. -Dr. Wayne S. Wooden and Dr. Martha Lou Berkey, a study of youthful firesetters in the San Bernadino County, CA, Juvenile Justice System
45% of all 602's (felonies committed by juveniles) are by adoptees. -Interstate Compact On Children, as reported by June Idler, Juvenile Compact, Riverside County Juvenile Probation Dept, 1988
20% of adolescents in drug rehabilitation and residential substance abuse treatment programs are adopted. -Center For Adoptive Families.
Male adoptees appear to deal with their feelings of rejection with more rage and aggression than do females. The ultimate expression of such rage is an act of violence, even murder. In 1997, one 100 children under age 10 were charged with murder (Frontline, PBS, 12-16-97); "tough on crime" politicos seek to prosecute them as adults and claim they are "genetically defective."
Conclusions? Well, go ahead and draw your own. But if you come up with anything good or positive about this situation, please be so kind as to let the rest of us know about them.
2003-04-11 23:22 | User Profile
It may be something as simple as being politically expedient - meaning they can't point to the kids and say ... "Look what good I've done ..." or many other tired old lines that politicos like to toss around for sound bits and video clips. Never doubt how low any of these lizards will go, how calculated every move is. Hell, if they've sold out to the Jew'n, they'll do darn near anything.
2003-04-12 00:04 | User Profile
The Bushes support adoption because it is an alternative to abortion. The pro-life movement is major supporter of the Bushes.