Talk Radio in the Morning

My dad goes to sleep at night listening to Coast to Coast, which leads into my waking up and listening to Rick Rydell which is on the same station. After that the radio is usually left on through the morning which leads through Rush and into Dr. Laura before we get around to turning it off somewhere during Dr. Laura's show.

Sometimes my dad will listen to Dr. Laura for a while and yesterday he told me why. It seems that whenever he's feeling like he's got problems he listens to the problems of people that call her and things don't seem so bad on this end any more. I guess that's understandable since that is what shows like that survive on is people that like to hear about others that have more trouble in their lives or hear about people with similar troubles and maybe find an answer to their own problems without having to ask about it.

I have to say that I don't care for Dr. Laura. The woman lost my interest when I realized just how strongly she advocates- no, preaches giving children up for adoption. She did it again today. A girl that is surrounded by a loving family that is ready to support her and help her with raising her child and Dr. Laura is pleading with the woman to put the baby up for adoption when it is born because the girl is not married.

Please excuse my language, but that is BULLSHIT. Just because the father is not in the picture, or may be in the picture on the sidelines, does not mean that the girl and her family can not give the baby a good loving home. How is it that strangers can be better? I mean, hell, there was adoptive parents here in the Valley that had adopted multiple children and allegedly abused them by locking them in crates, forcing them to work long hours in a family garden, making one of them them sleep chained to a tree for three days, and striking one in the arm with a pipe (and those are just a few of the charges that the pair faced). The Anchorage Daily News has more on what happened in their coverage of the adoptive mother's trial.

I know there are many many many more instances out there of adoptive parents abusing their foster children, and I admit it, birth parents can be bad too, but I do not think it is right to coerce a young girl to give her baby up for adoption, and promise that the child will be better off, simply because the girl is not married. No one can guarantee that a child will find a home that is better than the one that their family could offer them.