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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - thanks everyone for shedding light on some of the barriers and difficulties. I'm thinking children just may not be in the cards for us at all. [/quote]

OP you realize there are SO many children that need homes right? From all over the world (our country included). Why not start with fostering locally? [/quote]

A child, is a child, is a child.  [b]Why is a local  child more deserving than the child from Syria.  [/b][i][u]

Not to make this political, but i hear this all the time with refugees.  "help your homeless vets before you help the refugees."  I think no vet should be homeless, but I also think helping one does not preclude you from helping the other and it's just morally wrong to value one life more over the other.  [/quote]

It's not that a local child is more deserving.  It's that it is *possible* to adopt a local child (or a child from many other countries) while it is not really feasible to adopt a child from Syria.  In the midst of a crisis (war in Syria, devastating hurricane in Haiti) it was very easy for children to become separated from their parents and family, so it is critical that kids are protected and that they aren't separated from their country when their family is still alive and would desperately want to have their child (or nephew/niece/cousin/neighbor/friend) back.[/quote]

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