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		toomuchtodo 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Coll... Adopt. There are ~400k kids in foster care in the US alone, half of which are adoptable. There are plenty of humans already existing who need care.

bradlys 3 months ago [–]

This ignores the level of issues that most kids in foster care are suffering. People want a healthy child to start with. Most children in foster care are deeply afflicted and have deep traumas that will never be resolved by any new parental figure.

toomuchtodo 3 months ago | [–]

Humans are selfish, broadly speaking, there is no solution for that.

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