From Hell to Heaven: How Orphan Care Evolves
Level 5: Heaven So advanced is our nation's orphan care system, there is only one step higher, and that's heaven itself. At this highest evolved level of orphan care, children needing permanency barely wait any amount of time at all. There are always more citizens ready and wanting to adopt than there are waiting children who need to be adopted. The government and society as a whole are familiar with adoption, accepting of it, and enthusiastically supportive of families that adopt children with special needs.
Heaven may sound like it is out of reach but, throughout history and into the present day, many cultures and societies have achieved this level of child-centeredness. Tribes in isolated areas of Africa and South America, to this day, cherish each and every child as a priceless resource. An orphaned child is immediately taken in by another family because all adults are seen as parents to all children. Early white explorers in America left behind written accounts of Native American tribes with the same attitude toward orphans. These explorers wrote with amazement about this attitude that every child is special. They asked how Indian families could readily take in Caucasian children captured in raids, and raise them with so little prejudice that some of the children actually achieved chieftain status within their tribes. (Indian children captured in white raids, on the other hand, were not raised within society, but sent to boarding schools.) This type of societal attitude is not just heavenly, it is the ultimate in adoption support. Every child a wanted child. And is not an unreachable goal.
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