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Adoption is another logical answer that can be very rewarding. All of us in the family I grew up in were adopted as infants. It's more expensive than birthing your own children but I imagine parents that left their fertile years focused on a career would be able to afford adoption.

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In most places adoption is also very expensive. For some absurd reason prospective adopting parents must prove they are worthy of raising children to the state, while biological parents don't have to prove anything.

Because orphans are wards of the state, and if the state thinks you would do a worse job providing for them why would they hand the child over?

Children are taken off the parents to protect them from harm. We can only justify that if we then protect them from harm, and that means not placing them with abusive parents.

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