Did the Bushs return an adopted child?

[Poiuyt]

I just read this on another thread. I hadn't heard it before. The story is that the Bushs were having trouble getting pregnant, so they adopted a child. They then became pregnant with the twins, so they returned the adopted child.

I find this really hard to believe. Does anyone have any links if this is true?

[StaggerLee]

1. Wow

That would give No Child Left Behind a totally new meaning.

[Southsideirish]

2. I seem to recall they were considering adoption but I don't know if

they actually did it. It would be very interesting if they had. Do you have the link?

[KansDem]

5. For what it's worth...

A 100-year legacyThe Gladney Center has been a haven for birth mothers and their children for more than 100 years.Originally opened as the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society in 1887, it is the oldest adoption agency in the nation. It has placed more than 26,000 children and worked with more than 36,000 mothers, according to its literature.In 2002, the agency posted $6.1 million in revenues and $26.8 million in assets and, the same year, it moved into a new, $17.5 million campus in far southwest Fort Worth.

Over the years, Gladney has been recognized for its newborn adoption and maternity services, which include providing pre- and postnatal health care, labor and delivery, food and housing, legal services, counseling, educational programs and job skills training."We are about building families. That is what we do," said Paige McCoy Smith, a Gladney spokeswoman. "We are all about finding permanent homes for children that have been entrusted to our care."Gladney also has earned a reputation as a powerful agency in the adoption world with influential supporters and adoptive families.President Bush and his wife, Laura, for example, have said they were planning to adopt a child at Gladney until the first lady became pregnant with their twin daughters. Later, the president's younger brother, Marvin Bush, adopted two children from Gladney.Former Fort Worth Mayor Kenneth Barr and his wife, Karen, adopted their daughter, Katherine, from Gladney in 1978."I think Gladney is an outstanding organization that has done miraculous things, and I don't mean to overplay it at all," Kenneth Barr said. "It's been very positive for everyone involved -- the children, the birth parents and the adoptive parents."Katherine Barr, 26, said it bothers her "a little" that she doesn't know her medical history. But she said that hers was a closed adoption and that her parents knew that from the start. She said she would never seek the records."I think the life I've had outweighs the concerns I have about my medical history," Katherine Barr said. "Not knowing my birth parents' genetics has not ever bothered me."With that kind of clientele came considerable political clout.

http://www.theparentperspective.com/boards/thread-view.asp?threadid=219589&posts=7

[kodi]

3. sure, but according to george the warranty wasn't up when they returned it

dude sure is a businessman, ain't he?

[Lou_C]

4. If that is true that is heartless

I wouldn't return a Dog or a Cat let alone a child.

If this is true then someone needs to find it out and let the world know.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Enough with the uncorroborated personal smears.

We've got enough on Bush, policy-wise.

I'm one of those who would rather talk about the 800+ dead American soldiers (FACT) vs. unsubtantiated allegations of personal behavior and innuendo.

It might just be me... but I think about Alex Pollier's story, and I just would rather steer away from these kinds of issues when so many more pressing ones exist.

[Lou_C]

7. If the shoe was on the other foot and it was Kerry they would smear him

[Poiuyt]

13. That's why I asked before smearing

I just wanted to see if there was any truth to the matter.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. I haven't heard that but I do know the Bush's first born daughter

passed away at an early age. I believe she was, like, 5 or something and it was leukemia. I have seen a portrait of her and she was a beautiful child.

[Bunny]

12. That was Pooppy and Bar's daughter.

Shrub's sister. She's the one who died of leukemia. Did you know Poopy and Bar hit the golf course the day after her funeral? And did you know they ridiculed young Shrub for writing about her death in a school essay? Family values, indeed. :eyes:

[Burma Jones]

9. Jeez, at least they didn't eat the child....

Seriously, given the behavior of other prominent Repubs like Newt Gingrich or Dennis Hastert or others, it wouldn't surprise me.

[Lou_C]

11. It it would have been Clinton they would be telling people that he ate it

[Alerter_]

10. the conspiracy theory is Jeb sold the "missing" foster kids as sex slaves

Why not? Saying "that could never happen" is not a reasonable argument. When you run an organization that "loses" large numbers of kids, what are we supposed to think? DU would be up in arms if the Catholic church had "lost" lots of kids.

[catzies]

14. Larry Flynt should check the rumor out.

If he comes up with the goods I'll believe him. Yeah, I know. :crazy: