How Could A Parent Give Away Their Children To Strangers?

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February 02-2010:

How Could A Parent GIVE Away Their Children To Strangers?

Yes, this is what is being established in Haiti, in some of the answers given by the parents of some of those children, that were taken by the Americans on the bus en-route to the Dominican Republic.

Some of these parents answered when questioned by the Haitian authorities, that they were too poor, and destitute. So when the Americans came and ask to take them away to the Dominican Republic, where they would have Stuff Dolls, Food, Swimming Pools, and better Schools.

That was the reason why they chose to place the children in their custody!

And hoped that they would be well cared for, and would be able to communicate with them anytime in the future.

How could anyone be so naive to believe that some stranger will care for their child in some foreign country? When these strangers are not related to these children at all.

And there is no guarantee that these children will not be sold, prostituted later in life, or will ever know who they are, or who their true parents are, when they grow up?

I cannot imagine (regardless of poverty), how a mother, after carrying that or those children in her body for NINE months, just GIVE them away to a stranger, because she felt she could not support them.

Didn't she know that before she became pregnant?

Didn't she know that by so doing, she will kill any love that child would have for her, or any sense of who or what that child is, or will become later in life?

This is beyond my comprehension at this point. And I will never condone the view, that POVERTY should be used as an excuse, for selling or giving away one's children, period!

Derryck.
NYC.