Reply #1: short answer? because in their minds, women are vessels, not people.

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What we feel, think, believe and do is not important as long as we're servicing the sperm.

Adoption is no cake walk for the kids, either. I advocate in court for children who have been adopted by adoptive parents with unrealistic expectations and end up abused out of it. Often, they're abused in therapy in a non-APA approved method called "attachment therapy." Children have died under these methods that include restraint, forced feedings, compression to simulate "birth". Children have also been starved and forced to work at manual labor under conditions that we would never put an adult in.

Most of the kids who get subjected to this are "hard to place" kids, older, minority or disabled kids. They're often separated not only from their natal families, but from their adoptive families and placed in "respite" homes for weeks, months, or years on end. In these homes, they are locked in their rooms - rooms that are tiled, lit from the outside, and contain only a bare mattress - whenever they are not cleaning, forced to sit perfectly still for hours on end in uncomfortable positions, or being homeschooled. They're frequently over-medicated, have little access to legitimate medical care and little access to dental care. Were these children adults, we'd call their treatment torture. Since they're children, it's called therapy.

for more information, please see: http://www.childrenintherapy.org /

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