Dear Roland I am now in a position to deal with the rest of your response to me:
Quote How did you come to the conclusion that couples in Canada who are adopting are mostly mixed race. You have given no fact or observation or deduction to prove this. Unquote Response: If you look at website "Canada Adopts" it shows profiles on the Waiting Parents Registry of those couples waiting to adopt, you will see how I came to this conclusion: http://www.canadaadopts.com/registry/index.shtm NOTE the mixed race couples and ages. Can you spot any Canadian couples of Goan origin in these profiles? Quote: As an aside, the 2000-odd annual adoption figures cited are probably not inclusive of private agencies in the field operating under govt regulations but independent of the Adoption Council of Canada. Unquote Response: The Alberta Adoption Statistics from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 show that the number of private agency adoptions in this province were just 83. You can check this out on http://child.alberta.ca/home/608.cfm. I am not expecting it to be very much different in Canada's other provinces and territories. General: Of course, all this was written before I realised none other than the knightress in shining armour would come charging on her high horse (watch minute 1.58 on U-tube Bugs Bunny Conducting the Marriage of Figaro) to take my hand and guide me through the mysteries of your stray thoughts. A knightress with mysteries of her own, we can all recall that many, many, many, many sunsets ago she announced on goanet that thankfully her time in the United Kingdom was coming to an end soon and she was relocating to another part of our planet earth but mysteriously she still appears to be here! To heck with calories, eating (mysteriously lost but now found) Portuguese Pasteis de Natas in sweet numbers might be the secret to getting me out of this yet another State of Goan confusion? Rose Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 1 July 2012