tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590814806046579782.post6508263179837298189..comments2023-07-03T22:02:39.289+09:00Comments on The Japanese Phrase of the Day: Quake orphanspumpkinmommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13997861008749748420noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590814806046579782.post-72391238159007145062011-04-11T23:59:39.441+09:002011-04-11T23:59:39.441+09:00Very interesting. Didn't bother to read the ar...Very interesting. Didn't bother to read the article since, as you and Tia wrote, the best place for kids is within their own (functioning) communities, and even with what has happened Japanese society, as a whole, has not been fractured. There are a lot of other places in the world where any kind of adopting out would be an improvement over what they could expect otherwise.Annie Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09734321180522990210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590814806046579782.post-15061470924811077492011-04-11T23:02:02.055+09:002011-04-11T23:02:02.055+09:00I agree that the best place for these children is ...I agree that the best place for these children is within their own community, if not, at least somewhere in the country where they can express their emotional needs to their new families, or, as the need be, mental health professionals.<br /><br />Current adoption policy in Japan has a lot of limits. I think both parents have to be under a certain age (I think it was 40 or 45, I am not sure) and the mother has to be a full-time homemaker. So if you're doing infertility treatments, and you keep trying for several years, you might be that age before you finally decide that adoption is the way to go, only to find that you're too old...and even if you are young enough, you will have to give up that job you kept so you could pay for infertility treatments...but that's another rant for another day.pumpkinmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13997861008749748420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590814806046579782.post-23757934395395104632011-04-11T11:47:39.100+09:002011-04-11T11:47:39.100+09:00Saw this discussed in a different group and yes, p...Saw this discussed in a different group and yes, people expecting to find babies to adopt is ridiculous. Mostly they will be older/grade school kids with language skills that are NOT English. Tramatised by the 'quakes and tsunami. IF there are no family members any where to take these kids, I see a lot of parents who have lost kids, taking these actual ophans in rather than sending them to foreign countries.Tia K.noreply@blogger.com