Monday, February 8, 2010

Why I'm okay with American's taking Haitian children


Not only is it irresponsible to send children back into these conditions, it's cruel. Any parent who doesn't willingly want their children to be taken to the U.S. is selfish beyond belief.


As long as the parents consent, off they should go...Maybe even if they don't consent.

Clamoured outside the Canadian embassy, adults, children and entire families scavenged for help -- a way out of Haiti.

Now a group of American missionaries go down and attempt to rescue, save, help and feed starving children --most of them were orphans-- and they are the bad guys? It's funny because most of the parents interviewed said they willingly gave their children to the missionaries to bring back.

It's ironic because it seems people are always looking for a way out of Haiti. Whether it be floating on a rickety boat to Florida or simply drifting on an inflated raft, ask anyone where they'd rather be, I'll bet they say "anywhere else."

So a group of "baptist" missionaries --all the news outlets had to point out they were "baptist"-- go down and attempt to bring Haitian children back. Some were orphans, some were children given up by their parents, others were just wandering children lost without family. Either way, these people in no way stole infants from the arms of mothers or raided shanties in the middle of the night. They simply took children that seemed lost and without care, and attempted to give them a better life. A better life they would undoubtedly not have if they lived out their lives in Haiti.

Some people might argue that what I'm saying is savage and brutal, and that no child should be taken from their parents --to this I agree. But I promise you that one day each and every child taken from Haiti to either the U.S. or Canada will look back and thank those that brought them.

These missionaries aren't kidnappers. They enormous hearts and deeply care for the children that are struggling in that tattered nation.

If anyone doubts those kids would have had better lives in America, read the information below. Instead, these children will now live a life of poverty, hunger and illiteracy because they were told they had to stay in the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

They should have let the missionaries take them.


Think the kids should have stayed in Haiti? Read this..

1) Fewer than 30% of Haitian children reach third grade
2) Haiti has suffered 32 Coups...
3) 54% of people don't have access to a clean water source
4) Only 24% of births are attended by a skilled professional
5) Life expectancy at birth is 48
6) About 100 for every 1,000 births result in death for the infant.
7) More than half live on a dollar a day.
8) Fewer than 75% attend school
9) UN estimates around 6 percent of Haitian have Aids...
10) Unemployment is over 80%..

Not only is it irresponsible to send children back into these conditions, it's cruel. Any parent who doesn't willingly want their children to be taken to the U.S. is selfish beyond belief.

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