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Time：第 32次例會，2009年 8月 15日（週六）下午2:30 ~5:30
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Agenda
14:30~14:45 : Short Free Talk
14:45~15:45 :First Article discussion session(Question 1, 2)
15:45~16:00 :Change Seats, and then break time
16:00~16:40 :Second Article discussion session(Question 3, 4, 5)
16:40~17:00 :Speaker Session
17:00~17:10 :Host invites attendants to share feedback
17:10~17:30: Happy Time Session
NOTE: Every attendant please brings this article your own to the gathering place
Host: Daphne
Speaker: Alpha
Happy Time Conductor: Chichi
Photographer Conductor: Kelly
Topic：：Adoption
source: http://ch.englishbaby.com/lessons/4965/real_life/adoption
Many people want to be parents, and when they think about it, they usually imagine raising their own biological children. But there are many kids all over the world who need parents. And some couples aren’t able to conceive. The only way they can have children is to adopt.
Adoption is highly regulated and it’s hard for parents who want to adopt a kid to get one. So in most cases, kids who get adopted end up in a good home.
Jason thinks adoption is a good idea because it helps keep the population down. Dale has an adopted sister. But there are some hard things that adopted kids have to deal with. Listen to them share their thoughts on adoption.
Jason: So, uh, my girlfriend kind of wants me to have kids at some point, like that’s important to her. But I’ve always thought the world just has too many people in it, you know, and you should just adopt.
Dale: You know, my parents thought the same thing, so my little sister was adopted.
Jason: Oh really? Is she from another country?
Dale: She is from another country. She’s actually from the Philippines.
Jason: OK.
Dale: She was found six days after she was born.
Jason: Yeah?
Dale: And, uh, she was adopted by my mom and dad.
Jason: Wow. How’s that been? Was it cool?
Dale: I think that everything went perfectly fine until she turned about 18 and realized she had no baby pictures here. Who were her birth parents? Who really is her mom? Within families I believe that does cause a lot of stress.
Jason: Did she look into her past, like, find out why she was put up for adoption?
Dale: She tried, but I mean, she was really found at an orphanage. Now we believe that she’s extremely blessed in where she’s, you know…How she was able to come to the United States, that sort of thing.
Jason: Why’d your parents decide to adopt? Overpopulation?
Dale: Actually, to be honest with you, I was the oldest boy and she always wanted a girl. Tried again, had a boy. Third time, had a boy, so the fourth one was like, my dad goes, “You’re not gonna try anymore, let’s just guarantee we’re gonna have a girl.”
Jason: Nice.
Questions:
1. Is adoption general in Taiwan?
2. Would you prefer to adopt a child or raise your own?
3. Are you or any of your friends adopted? What are people’s views?
4. If you are adopted (or you really are), are you wondered about your birth parents?
5. What do you think about adopted people’s life? Do they worry about their past as
they grow older?
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