When religion overrides parental duty - West

?You?re gay? Then we?re giving you up for adoption.? A married couple from South Carolina have caused public outrage in the US when they announced they would be giving their teenage daughter up for adoption ? just because of her sexual orientation.

The news sounds far-fetched. Abandoning one?s child for economic reasons is common, when the means to raise a human being in dignity are lacking, or for psychological reasons if the parent doesn?t feel ready to support and guide a child. However, this is the first noted case in which a parent gives a child up for adoption because the child is homosexual.

The case is even more striking because the child in question is not a baby, but a 16-year-old adolescent. To be abandoned at an age when you are fully aware of circumstances must be worse than being given up for adoption as a baby. However, the state of South Carolina has declared that the girl is legally adoptable and she is currently a ward of the state.

The girl, April Chadwell, must have thought deeply before announcing her sexuality to her family and, particularly because of her young age, she may have been anxious about doing so. But when it came to telling her parents, perhaps hoping for understanding and support from them, instead she was met with an unimaginable response.

Mrs. Chadwell explained to the press that the choice had been painful for her and her husband but that they were not able to deal with a situation they didn?t agree with ? and which they found incomprehensible and intolerable. They therefore turned to their local church, which they attended faithfully, and preferred to pray for April, who would be better off living with a family that knows how to treat her with love and tolerance.

Is it ever too late to take a step backwards, because of one?s own limitations and the awareness that one?s own behaviour might be more harmful to a child than giving that child up? Or, on the other hand, might the child suffer more, being aware that he or she is alone in the world just because their parents had strong views that their parental feelings were not able to overcome?

Source: http://www.west-info.eu/when-religion-overrides-parental-duty/

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