Letters

Adoptions

Tom King

Contents - Jun 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Man-made climate change: a moral issue - Michael Gilchrist Education: Pope: Catholic education must uphold Church teachings - Pope Benedict XVI News: The Church Around the World Human Rights: China: Olympic rings - or shackles? - Babette Francis Jury still out on global warming - Cardinal George Pell Christianity 'lite' with all the hard parts unmentioned: a spiritual dead-end - Alan Roebuck FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Reasons for believing in God - Frank Mobbs Climate Debate: Man-made climate change is a reality - Dr Alex Gardner Climate Debate: Man-made climate change: politics not science - Peter Finlayson Letters: Climate change - J. Holder Letters: Sceptical - Bernard Hoey Letters: Scandal - Don Gaffney Letters: Contraception - Tim Coyle Letters: Baptism formula - Franklin J. Wood Letters: Adoptions - Tom King Letters: Abortion and Martin Luther King - Brian Harris Letters: Ordinary Magisterium - Peter D. Howard Letters: Infallible? - Frank Mobbs Letters: Priests needed in Ballarat - Jenny Bruty Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) Books: FR WERENFRIED: A Life, by Joanna Bogle - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) Letters: FEMINISM V. MANKIND: Selected Essays - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD2000 Books Reflection: Benedict XVI on the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ - Pope Benedict XVI

Regarding the recent 2020 gathering of great minds in Canberra, perhaps I missed the questions asked about Australia's falling birth rate, decline in adoptions and continuing government subsidy of abortion, within or outside the law.

In fact the single most practical way to minimise the slaughter of the coming generations of Australians is to expand and support the practice of adoption. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2006-07 report, in 1971-72 there were just under 10,000 adoptions in Australia whereas in 2006-07 the figure was a mere 568, and 71 percent of these came from outside Australia.

To reach an informed conclusion, one needs to research the facts, not simply repeat the muddled opinions of politicians.

The investigations of Dr Genevieve Heards and reports by Catherine Sheehan should be essential sermon resources for all the Christian churches. We may then challenge the complacency of the majority that continues to be fed by the bias and ignorance of the secular media.

TOM KING
Bray Park, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 5 (June 2008), p. 15