Adoption study shoots left in the foot.

I love reading articles about studies that try to prove social agendas. It's so much fun.

This latest one seems to indicate that kids are actually better off being raised by adoptive parents than by their biological parents, including single and step-parent situations.

The "powers that be" on the Left are trying to use this as an argument in favor of adoption by homosexual couples, though the study only covered heterosexual couples. However, in touting this study, they sabotage another key part of the leftist platform: abortion.

Some abortion proponents claim that it is better for a woman to kill her child in the womb than to put it up for adoption, because it would be too difficult for her to part with the child after carrying it for nine months, and some claim it would be better for the child, too, since adopted families are widely assumed to be inferior. Others take a more "feminist" view, and say the pregnant woman shouldn't have to be an incubator for the wealthy (as if the wealthy are the only ones who adopt), and leave the life of the child out of it completely. In short, for varied reasons, they believe that the only choices available to a woman with an unplanned pregnancy are abortion and raising an "unwanted" child.

If the results of this study are accurate (big if, considering the small scale of this study), it means the best option (especially for single women) IS adoption, as many of us pro-life folks have been saying all along. If one person is unable or unwilling to raise a child, there are couples who DO want the joys and responsibilities that come with being parents, who may, on average, embrace those possibilities with greater alacrity. So, through adoption, a woman can give great joy to at least three people, by giving her child a good life, and two other people the joy of raising that child. Talk about a way to give back! The article, however, never touches on this facet of the issue.

Surprise, surprise.