Lately I’ve read a lot about adoption of children. More precisely, about who is not considered good enough to be allowed to help a child from less privileged circumstances. I mean, as everyone knows, it’s far better for a child to starve and/or be sexually exploited than ending up in the hands of someone, say – a little more chubby than the average parent, or a little older than the ‘family police’ approves of, or of course the classic – horrible single woman. Right?

Perhaps it would be better to simply ban adoption outright. Well, if you think about it, any child would prefer starvation and/or exploitation to living with a fat person, or a middleaged one or heaven forbid, an unmarried woman. Let’s just pack the whole thing in and get back to living the real life – running the rat race, shop ’til you drop and fly all over the world using up the last of our clean oxygen. Because that’s what the authorities would prefer, really. Wouldn’t they?

I’d just like to add that for me, personally, a slightly overweight, single woman, adoption has never been an option, so I won’t have to deal with the disappointment and the humiliation of being snubbed as a potential parent. That’s great, isn’t it? Good for me.

And as everyone knows, no young, slim, married parent has ever abused and/or killed their children, right?

Problem solved. Bring on the next one.