Jonathan Bailey
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Remember that TV show, Differnt Strokes from the late 1970's through much of the 1980's?
The well-to-do white widower, Mr. Drummond, with a fat Cadillac limo driven by (Frank, or was it James?) takes two pre-teen boys of color, two biological brothers, from a rough New York 'hood under his wing.
How many real-word rich white American men would take into his home two boys near high-school age and especially such minors of color from the 'hood?
The Mr. Drummond character actor, Conrad Bain, playing the next-door neighbor doctor on 1970's Maude was rather homophobic as a character, Arthur Harmon, M.D., in that TV series though.
Of course, there are white American children and American children of other races who need adoption into good homes as well. Americans who adopt should only adopt needy children who are lawful American citizens. America should take care of her own first.
On Differnt Strokes, people used to laugh or have a strange look on their faces whenever Mr. Drummond said the two black boys were his "sons". I would have introduced them as my adoptive sons to stress the obvious and avert embarrassment but racial humor was the whole point of the comedy show. I, a bachelor, would probably adopt at least two white American boys, even up to high-school age but no younger than ten, in need of a home if I were to have such wherewithal. I figure children of such tender age need a mother figure in the home but a rich bachelor can also hire a professional nanny. I don't care to have female children around the house.
Boys are often harder to place in homes by adoption agencies than girls and they have the nice natural feature of not being able to get pregnant.
The well-to-do white widower, Mr. Drummond, with a fat Cadillac limo driven by (Frank, or was it James?) takes two pre-teen boys of color, two biological brothers, from a rough New York 'hood under his wing.
How many real-word rich white American men would take into his home two boys near high-school age and especially such minors of color from the 'hood?
The Mr. Drummond character actor, Conrad Bain, playing the next-door neighbor doctor on 1970's Maude was rather homophobic as a character, Arthur Harmon, M.D., in that TV series though.
Of course, there are white American children and American children of other races who need adoption into good homes as well. Americans who adopt should only adopt needy children who are lawful American citizens. America should take care of her own first.
On Differnt Strokes, people used to laugh or have a strange look on their faces whenever Mr. Drummond said the two black boys were his "sons". I would have introduced them as my adoptive sons to stress the obvious and avert embarrassment but racial humor was the whole point of the comedy show. I, a bachelor, would probably adopt at least two white American boys, even up to high-school age but no younger than ten, in need of a home if I were to have such wherewithal. I figure children of such tender age need a mother figure in the home but a rich bachelor can also hire a professional nanny. I don't care to have female children around the house.
Boys are often harder to place in homes by adoption agencies than girls and they have the nice natural feature of not being able to get pregnant.
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