Refugee Camp for the Most Needy
Today, there are 20,000,000 children alone living in refugee camps. Children waiting for a place to go, because they can't go back to a place where they will be killed.
If only there was a refugee camp for children about to be aborted. What if children could escape the womb and wait to be rescued because they cannot return "home" where they will be killed? My wife served for a while in an international effort to provide pregnant mothers with alternatives to abortion. For now, we are not involved directly (other than occasional counseling incidents), so....can you?
Adoption is a solution. My wife's family has a multi-generation practice of multiple adoptions. Both she and her mother were adopted--my wife was rescued from abortion by at quick-thinking Christain taxi driver. We have not adopted, yet, though we always wanted to do so--that is just the way life turned out.
I know there are liberals here who will mock--so mock on. But for those with a heart, please consider adoption or actually getting involved with sponsoring refugees. My wife and I are presently working with a young couple, both Asians who have been successfully sponsored, but we are aiding them in aiding others and hoping to write their incredible story of their parents as boat people.
What are you doing?
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Wow. No response. That totally discredits the noisy trumpets of criticism. I smell hypocrisy.
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I recommend this book. But then don't sit in your chair and criticise "doers" on forums, and do nothing. Go out and do something.
Chung, V., & Downs, T. (2014). Where the wind leads: a refugee family’s miraculous story of loss, rescue, and redemption. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
https://ebooks.faithlife.com/products/40128/where-the-wind-leads
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[Note the crickets]
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In Japan Child adoption is rare, but the adoption of Adults is a lot more common.
"Nearly 300 children in the nation’s orphanages over the past two years could not be put up for adoption because consent from their biological parents could not be obtained, a welfare ministry survey showed" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/23/national/social-issues/lack-parental-consent-preventing-hundreds-orphans-adopted-survey-finds/#.W3lUVegzbIU
"Japan is an outlier where child adoption is concerned. In most countries it is the norm that children who for whatever reason cannot be cared for by their birth parents are adopted or live with foster parents. But in Japan, the majority of such children reside in institutions." https://www.nippon.com/en/currents/d00393/
"Before the tsunami, there were more than 36,000 children in “orphanages” in Japan. Around 3,000 of them were housed in 乳児院 (nyujiin: infant nurseries, usually for children under two years old). The overwhelming majority of these children are not orphans in the sense of having no living guardian. Nor have they been removed from their parents’ custody. The majority have living parents who retain legal custody but who are not raising them. In some cases children are housed in orphanages temporarily. In other cases, they will remain in institutions from birth until adulthood, never meeting their parents. Because parents maintain legal rights to the children, they are unable to be adopted." http://sopheliajapan.blogspot.com/2013/01/adoption-in-japan-part-1-why-are-there.html#.W3lTWegzbIU
"Every year in Japan more than 80,000 people are welcomed in to new homes—it’s a country second only to America in terms of its adoption rate—yet when it comes to child adoption it’s lagging well behind the rest of the developed world. The vast majority of adoptees here are adults—particularly males in their 20s and 30s—often used as a tool to keep family businesses running if there is no biological heir or if the biological heir doesn’t seem like a suitable candidate to take over the company. At the same time tens of thousands of kids are still being brought up in institutions rather than a family-based setting."
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/2015/05/adoption-in-japan-the-children-left-behind/
