adopting a child using the natural law

Okay, I'll bite.

Adoption is ethically questionable (and I say this as an adoptive parent).

I believe that most pregnant women, who choose to carry a baby to term, would prefer to parent that child than to place it for adoption. However, we look at people who adopt children as "do gooders".

If we were really interested in doing good, wouldn't we put supports in place that would allow women to keep their children instead of finding new parents for the child?

Okay, I'll bite.

Adoption is ethically questionable (and I say this as an adoptive parent).

I believe that most pregnant women, who choose to carry a baby to term, would prefer to parent that child than to place it for adoption. However, we look at people who adopt children as "do gooders".

If we were really interested in doing good, wouldn't we put supports in place that would allow women to keep their children instead of finding new parents for the child?

Part 1: When a Liberian girl proves too much for her parents, they advertise her online and give her to a couple they’ve never met. Days later, she goes missing.

KIEL, Wisconsin – Todd and Melissa Puchalla struggled for more than two years to raise Quita, the troubled teenager they'd adopted from Liberia. When they decided to give her up, they found new parents to take her in less than two days – by posting an ad on the Internet.

Nicole and Calvin Eason, an Illinois couple in their 30s, saw the ad and a picture of the smiling 16-year-old. They were eager to take Quita, even though the ad warned that she had been diagnosed with severe health and behavioral problems. In emails, Nicole Eason assured Melissa Puchalla that she could handle the girl.

"People that are around me think I am awesome with kids," Eason wrote.

A few weeks later, on Oct. 4, 2008, the Puchallas drove six hours from their Wisconsin home to Westville, Illinois. The handoff took place at the Country Aire Mobile Home Park, where the Easons lived in a trailer.

No attorneys or child welfare officials came with them. The Puchallas simply signed a notarized statement declaring these virtual strangers to be Quita's guardians. The visit lasted just a few hours. It was the first and the last time the couples would meet.

To Melissa Puchalla, the Easons "seemed wonderful." Had she vetted them more closely, she might have discovered what Reuters would learn:

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