When I was a young pretty thing in college, my best friend and I used to look at each other and say "No Babies." Well, a few years passed and we both got pregnant at the same time. I had a beautiful little girl and she had an abortion under pressure from her husband. She cut off connections with me at that time and, 19 years later, I haven't heard from her. I feel so bad. This is to say that people who are young may not realize the value of children.

And, on another issue, my son is a foreign adoption. They are so much easier than domestic adoptions just because of what the adoptive parents are put through to find and be allowed to adopt a child. Also, he is totally americanized. If he were still in his foreign country, there is a good chance he would be begging on the street. (Instead, he gets in the car and begs money from me!)

Fitzi