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Pat Robertson: Don’t adopt sexually abused children that could grow up ‘weird’

Aug 16, 2012 22:39

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday cautioned his viewers to think twice before adopting disadvantaged children that had been sexually abused or deprived of food because they could grow up “weird.”

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christianity, religion, child abuse / csa, pat robertson, race / racism, adoption, sexual assault, special needs, fuck this guy, children

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jenny_jenkins August 17 2012, 03:50:47 UTC

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Yeah sorry. I have nothing coherent to say.

Asshole.

mollywobbles867 August 17 2012, 03:51:17 UTC

He is so toxic.

pamuya August 17 2012, 03:52:03 UTC

i cannot form a coherent response other than FUCK YOU WTF

layweed August 17 2012, 03:53:41 UTC

You kiss Jesus with that mouth?

ETA: Maybe "You pray to Jesus with that mouth?" might be more appropriate, but whatever.

koken23 August 17 2012, 03:54:03 UTC

Kids with complicated issues might honestly be the ones who most need a stable and loving home to take them on, you fuckwit.

bestdaywelived August 17 2012, 03:56:15 UTC

I agree. I do think that there has been some serious bullshit wrt state foster care systems hiding the extent of physical or mental disabilities that some available children have in order to more easily place them, but then you see shit like this and can see exactly why people are afraid to adopt from the foster system.

koken23 August 17 2012, 04:25:34 UTC

All kids need and deserve a loving home, but kids with more complicated needs are never going to get the full extent of the support they need to help them from an overstretched state care system. As much as we might wish that every kid could have everything possible to help them catch up with their peers or recover from trauma or whatever else it is that they need...they just won't get it. Not from an organisation that's got thousands of other kids to care for and limited funds to cover them all.

A family's got limited funds too, but at least there it's one-on-one (or something close to it) instead of one-on-one-thousand.

elialshadowpine August 18 2012, 04:17:39 UTC

Yeah. It's something I heard growing up, that "foster kids are all fucked up, you don't know where they came from, what they've been through" blah blah blah. And I was always kind of, doesn't that mean they SHOULD have a caring, loving home? I don't think I've ever quite gotten it. While at this point in my life, kids aren't really something I want, I always figured if I decided I wanted kids, I'd foster.