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First off.. homeless doesn’t equal parentless. Even extremely (by western standards) poor people deserve to hold on to and parent their children. Remember too - that by world standards being poor in a developed (Industrialized, first world) nation is much easier, safer and still possible vs the alternative. Many developing nations have no safety net whatsoever if you are impoverished - you suffer and die. That includes the children.In the USA - children with parents who are neglectful, abusive (very often though NOT always impoverished) or in some other way unsuitable to parent are placed into Foster Care - with all the basics covered and often quite a bit more. They are not left to die on the side of the road, not sold into slavery so the family can survive, not sold into prostitution because daughters can not carry on the family name nor can they provide back breaking labor in the fields. Foster care is not ideal by any means.. and lets leave aside the FACT that the money spent on maintaining children in government care costs many thousands of times more than that which might maintain a family of origin in decency. In short - being in foster care in the US (or any other western nation) is still survivable. Some other areas of the world similar circumstance very often result in death or worse.We attempted for several years to adopt in the US - had become licensed foster parents and still no adoption resulted. We chose to travel to China to adopt since after careful consideration and research the lack of safety net, crowded orphanages, historical male gender preference and firm birth planning laws meant babies ending up orphans (on paper only) and living in deplorable conditions were available and waiting for adoption. OF course - when we first started the landscape of international adoption looked far different than it does today. Corruption, is seems, is part and parcel of many adoption programs (supply and demand) and China turned out NOT to be exempt. IN that space of 12 years (we started our first in 2004 and completed our third in 2010 and it is now 2016) we have learned that there is corruption of one kind or another in nearly every program. That the illusion of healthy babies just waiting around for some western parents to swoop in and adopt is more of an economical plan than a humane compassionate one. Still, to grow up being merely maintained rather than loved and cherished is no kind of childhood.We adopted for very simple (and selfish) reasons - we wanted to be parents. We had no particular need to parent genetically related children and sincerely wanted to be a family for a child needing a Mom and Dad. We tried adopting from our local Social Services, had no desire to engage in private bidding wars for a private domestic adoption and finally turned to international after much careful and critical evaluation of all the programs available and decided on China. We found an agency - and were matched with a beautiful baby girl, 5 months at the time - 10 months by the time we were allowed to travel to complete the adoption.Since that time - we went on to adopt two more children both of whom were school-aged and born with cleft lip and palate (common birth defect found in 1 in 600 children world wide) that to a western family is not a terrible burden to correct - but which made their lives very unpleasant in their birth country and is very likely the reason their original families could not parent - no health insurance in China to fix a fairly simple medical issue. Today we have three beautiful children, two girls 11 yo and one boy 12. We are grateful beyond measure that we are parents to these three amazing children. We are sad that we had to go all the way around the world to become parents when, yes, there are children right in our back yard that might have been adopted by us, but the families of those children have the right to try to keep their children within their original family too. I don’t regret fostering or even that in the US reunification is ALWAYS the first goal. That IS as it should be. But - the path that lead us to our children, fraught with uncertainty, hopes, dreams, disappointments and humility has made us appreciate the gift of parenting these wonderful children and has offered us the opportunity to make some small difference in the lives of many children. I wouldn’t change a thing if it meant changing my children. I hope this answers your question.

That’s not likely to happen. Here’s why. Pretty much any situation that a social worker is not willing to handle, because the person is too irrational, combative, or hostile, they are going to call the cops to handle for them.And pretty much any situation they can handle themselves, we can handle ourselves. So what’s the point.We had a Mental Evaluation Team to deal with people with mental issues in Los Angeles County (maybe we still do, I know the program was on the chopping block recently, because of Defunding). Each team consisted of one or two deputies and one or two “mental health professionals”.These teams were supposed to be called to handle what we call in California, “5150s”. If a person’s mental status is such that they either1- cannot care for themselves or2- are a danger to themselves or3- are a danger to othersthen they can be taken to a hospital and a 5150 WIC mental evaluation hold is placed on them for up to 72 hours.So if a patrol car got a 5150 call, he had the option of calling for the MET team to handle it. The problem was, the original patrol deputy had to stay on scene, until they arrived, in case the guy went really off the rails. Well L.A. County is a big ass county and traffic here is horrendous for about 18 hours of the day. The other 6 hours are ok by L.A. standards, but horrendous by most standards. A patrol deputy could handle the caper himself before the MET team was even on scene. They were a waste (no offense meant to any MET folks). I never used them and I had at least three 5150s a month.

Nothing like going through school being told by Feminists that, despite being far more likely to be... maimed, imprisoned, killed, homeless, robbed, commit suicide, suffer from a severe mental condition, die at work, face social isolation, and have my problems ignored by society, that I am a monster and a potential rapist who actually controls the world and I have a huge privilege that makes my life magical. I can be conscripted to fight in a war, I am more likely to work a dangerous job that goes wrong, if I become a father, odds are I don't get jack for time off with them. If I get divorced , I'll likely lose access to my own children as well as my home and much of my assets and wealth and the courts and laws are already set up to make this likely. In a disaster, my life is treated as less important -- "women and children first", and I may end up being publically shamed for following my self-preservation instincts. I do not have the option to meet a nice girl and just take care of the home for her; a man must work or he becomes at best an acceptable butt of jokes. Welfare, should I face poverty, is geared for women and children. Shelters, if I face violence, are for women and children. Support programs are almost all for women and children. It's considered okay for a woman to hit me, but if I hit her back, it's wrong. I'm expected to hide my feelings and be a working drone. The psychological pressures placed on men are immense.Should I be in a relationship, sex is in all probability going to be determiend by my girlfriend/wife's level of libido. I want it more than her? Too bad. I try to get more out of her? I'm an abuser. She gives in? By new definitions that makes me a rapist for having a biological need! And what if the situations are reversed? Then I'm a faggot. Also, in a relationship, if we go for counseling, counseling is primarily geared towards female communication and thought styles, and most counselors are women. I've noticed a pretty disquieting trend of couple who go through counseling "successfully" seem to have the result of the guy being so browbeat and disheartened that he just keeps quiet about his needs and perspectives.And then comes sex. Not only, according to actual science, does sexual repression come mostly from women, but women have far more freedom to explore and try their sexuality. Female sexuality and beauty are far more celebrated and evaluated. Female sexuality is something almost mystical, beautiful, spiritual. A woman having sex is making gentle moans, writhing a little, savoring touch. It's almost like a form of communion. Male sexuality is dirty, degrading, bestial, thrusting IN! IN! IN! Men having sex are sweaty, make weird faces, grunt oddly, and filled with an overwheming urge to spill seed. A girl sees a man she finds sexy. Good for her having some confidence. A boy sees a woman he finds sexy. Pervert! Women going to a strip show? Celebration of free sexuality? Men doing the same? Dogs after meat. Women traveling and yearning for exotic locales, romance, and sex? Seeking fulfilment like we all wish. Men doing that? Losers! A woman having standards? Good for her. A man having standards? Shallow pig! A woman gets reproductive control; by consentng to sex, she does not necessarily consult to parenthood. I, on the otherhand, cannot be allowed to not consent to parenthood after consenting to sex, or even if I didn't consent -- "Take responsibility!" Female sexual problems get enormous amounts of research and science put into them. Your vagina hurts during sex? Can't get wet. You poor darling. Male ones get jokes and ridicule and told to just try harder or quit being a fag. Painful erections? Can't stay hard? She needs a 'real' man who isn't secretly gay. A girl taking up a geeky hobby is an intelligent lady with a quirk. A man having a geeky hobby is a shutin loser unworthy of his scrotum