Saturday, September 6, 2008

Right or Wrong? Left Wing or Right?



Back to the topic of Sarah Palin, (speaking of Sarah, here is a picture I took while in alaska) and her ability to run as VP, and how she is so much like the rest of the world, yet...
There are some out there that say she should not abandon her children to run for office, that she talks about family values, yet where are hers?
I have a hard time with this sentiment only because I will be a working mother, due to the fact that my husband is a musician, and very good at his skill, but until he makes it big :) , I need a steady job to ensure we can afford our life.
So when children come into the picture, (which by the way we will be adopting), when my husband is out of town, they will go to day care.
So some may say...why are you adopting children just to drop them off everyday with someone else?
I say...
If they are able to be adopted chances are their world was much more grim than having to go to "pre-school" and having a mother and father who love them pick them up everyday, and take them to a home where dinner will be made, and they have a comfortable bed to sleep in, and they are safe.
I still think I am doing the right thing.
And I am a career woman, working up a very busy ladder.
Not only that, but when my husband goes to play sometimes he is out of town for weeks at a time. So not only am I a career minded women, half of the time I will be a "single mother" working a full time job.
So I have a feeling that I will be looked at as a saint for adopting in some peoples eyes, and a heathen for adopting and not staying home in others.
But what I think I am is a woman who wants to give a child who is already here a second chance at a better environment.
There is also the question or statement that comes up that people feel bad for us because we cannot have children of our own, and how sad for us that we cannot have our own flesh and blood.
Let me squash these questions or statements. We are adopting children because we want to, not because that is our second choice. There is no reason why we could not have children of our own. We have just chosen a different path for our family.
So would the right thing still be to not adopt?
That is the question.
And perhaps the question for Sarah Palin would be...are her children well cared for. You know a mother is not the only person who can care for a child. What about the dad? Or the Grandparents? They all lived together in the same town.
Hmmm.

1 comment:

Mrs. B. Roth said...

Very good points. It's not just moms that raise kids.

It's pretty admirable to want to adopt, there ARE so many kids already here who need to be loved.