Pat Robertson: Don't Adopt Sexually Abused Children

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

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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.”

During Thursday’s edition of The 700 Club co-host Kristi Watts read a letter from a woman who wanted to know why men stopped dating her when they learned that she had adopted three daughters from three different countries.

“Can I answer?” Watts asked. “I was going to say because they’re dogs. … That’s just wrong on every level.”

“No, it’s not wrong,” Robertson disagreed. “A man doesn’t want to take on the United Nations, and this woman’s got all these various children and blended family. What is it?”

The TV preacher then told a story about his “dear friend” who had adopted a son with brain damage and the boy “grew up weird.”

“You just never know what’s been done to a child before you get that child,” he explained. “What kind of sexual abuse, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation, etc., etc., etc.”

“So, you’re not a dog because you don’t want to take on that responsibility,” Robertson added. “You don’t have to take on somebody else’s problems.”

“OK, let’s get to the next question. I’m in trouble.”
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Think twice is the right term. Sexually abused children have enough problems and don't need people to rush into adopting them. They need parents above the average, not half hearted attempts.
 
I wonder often if people listen and think about what they say? Robertson is giving a nurture point of view, if he were intelligent enough to consider that, he'd then have to condone behavior he probably condemns in his next 'say.' He saying environment matters, and if it does matter, then has he as a man of gawd any responsibility for that environment in a Christian world view of the golden rule? Next ask him if he supports those children or maybe now teens - some of the answer he already gave - and he'd say it was their choice or they should know better. Odd how conservatives especially, see the world through a filter so thick they don't even see themselves or hear what they say.

"We're always saying that “children are our nation’s most valuable resource.” Unfortunately, we don’t behave as if we believe it. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of children living in poverty in America increased by 41 percent, and now includes nearly one-quarter of our kids. Growing up in poverty is bad. It leads to lower graduation rates (a third of these children will not graduate from high school); lower incomes (nearly half will still be living in poverty at age 35); and lower life expectancy (by about eight years)." Ezekiel J. Emanuel http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/share-the-wealth/
 
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Think twice is the right term. Sexually abused children have enough problems and don't need people to rush into adopting them. They need parents above the average, not half hearted attempts.
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someone who cares about the child?......you will not fit in the bandwagon pulled by the folks posting to this thread.......
 
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