Birth parents offer Justin nothing but problems

Birth parents offer Justinnothing but problems
EDITOR:
"The Asente Brothers!" An eye-catcher in many of your news issues over the past five years. Thank you for keeping the public updated on a heart-breaking event so that many of us can be praying for the family.
So many of us have felt sympathy and heartache for this family as they have hope and appear in court, then have another "on hold" decision to live with. It confuses us as to how any legal adoption can be put into jeopardy after such a long time. What is happening to our judicial system? Have judges become hard-core servicemen?
The five-year waiting period and "on hold" tactics must have taken their toll on this seemingly fine, upright, decent couple. Both Joey and Justin are handsome boys and such look-alike brothers, and it would be tragic to separate them. They have so much love and home environment surrounding them. It makes one wonder why the biological mother thought twice about his custody change.
If love was the real issue, how could Regina Moore (biological mother) and Jerry Dorning, who didn't marry her long ago, claim to be ignorant of an adoption as the reason for uprooting that little boy, Justin?
The Asentes report their legal expenses have exceeded $500,000, and it is believable. Wouldn't it have been more beneficial to Regina Moore to have taken the $50,000 and left things alone? She could have other children and decide to keep them and rear them as most parents do.
Really, how could she want Justin back when she gave up her firstborn, Joey, 7 years ago, then Justin, now 6 years old, and then a third child, a half-sibling to the Asente boys, whose father isn't Dorning?
According to news items -- and we depend daily on our well-educated news reporters who get the "in" news reports -- the Kentucky couple still remains "unmarried" and cannot provide the loving and wonderful environment the two brothers now share. What could they possibly offer Justin but confusion, heartbreak and even psychological problems?
Our prayers and sympathy (with hope) are for the Asente family, whose home and lives have been a nightmare for five years as they face "on hold" decisions. May God bless them and keep them walking in faith.
NANCY L. GENCO
New Springfield
Corporate greed, scandalsare destroying the economy
EDITOR:
Corporate greed and scandals are directly responsible for all lost jobs, lost benefits and the destruction of our economy.
In 1980, corporate America started moving good-paying production jobs to Third World countries for dirt-cheap wages with child and sweatshop labor, which this society is totally against. Although production costs were reduced, these products remained high-priced. This is corporate greed personified when only 18 percent of our workers are union members.
In 1992, President Bush was the architect of NAFTA. We have former President Clinton and the union to thank for keeping unsafe Mexican trucks off our highways. Our President Bush, former governor of Texas, is trying like hell to run these trucks all over the United States.
In this newspaper's want ads there are jobs advertised for $6 and $8 an hour. In the business section you can read about plant closings, record unemployment, union and nonunion workers taking wage and benefit concessions to save corporate America and, last but certainly not least, corporate CEOs making millions of dollars a year. In case you haven't noticed, this is a $28-an-hour economy and only the CEOs can survive.
Now corporate America is moving headquarters to a south sea island to avoid our tax structure. We, the people, should force our politicians to stop this exodus to protect the future of our children and to eliminate corporate greed. United we stand, divided we are going broke. God Bless America!
DAVID P. GAIBIS SR.
New Castle, Pa.