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Having personally witnessed Sir Elton John's failed attempt to adopt a child, a young couple questions themselves if the | dG1fUEhycmtrZER3Mm8
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00:00I want to have no kids.
00:16Why?
00:17Because I'm afraid they're going to turn out like me.
00:20What don't you like about yourself?
00:22I'm bad.
00:27We would like to adopt a child.
00:29It's going to be an enormous stack of paper.
00:31They look for problems.
00:32They look for faults.
00:33They look for flaws.
00:34And the minute they find one, they stroke you off the list.
00:37Psychological evaluation.
00:38You're completing a medical form, a financial form.
00:40So it needs a notary.
00:41It needs a city clerk stamp.
00:43It needs a state department stamp.
00:44There's a lot of complexity to working out the medical issues.
00:47Do some research.
00:48A child can be abused physically or psychologically.
00:52They've never had this.
00:53They've never been held on a regular basis and made to feel that bond that you feel with your own child.
01:03This child was beat to that.
01:05When you're in the bottom of the basement, again, there's nothing.
01:09It's a void.
01:10It's less than zero.
01:11So I felt like I have to arrest everybody.
01:16If an insult occurs at that time, then you could possibly have major abnormalities.
01:24The women wished they'd had a father in their own lives when they were kids.
01:27And they wished they had a responsible partner in their lives now.
01:29And the kids talked about missing their father for life.
01:32I know of people who've been turned down because, literally, they were occasional smokers.
01:37Because they were overweight.
01:39Because they thought that they loved their cats too much.
01:42I mean, absolutely absurd reasons.
01:45Every step of the way is a barrier.
01:49And it's ridiculous.
01:50It's ludicrous.
01:51And it's inhuman.
01:53I made the wrong decisions.
01:56If you kill me, I'm going to heaven.
02:02And you are so standing in your own hell.
02:05She issued an order that this person could not have any more children.
02:10I think people want choice.
02:15I think that's what's beautiful.
02:17It's America.
02:19We all have rights.
02:21Right?
02:22To find some way to make everybody sterile,
02:25so that if they wanted to have a child, they would have to take an antidote.
02:30Not every family finds all of this possible.
02:38It's a good idea, but I think it could become a bad idea.

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