"Left-handed" people: If you were allowed to adopt a child, would you promise to raise that child?

How do you raise someone to be something they are not? If someone's brain is wired to be left-handed, they can never be truly right handed.

OH! I see this is the Religion & Spirituality thread. Didn't realize that at first. So that question must have some double meaning. Maybe something like pointing out the ridiculousness of trying to teach gay people to be straight when they are hard wired to be gay?

I've seen some dumb religious nonsense before but this belief is way past stupid and right along side child abuse. A person cannot be "trained" to do what is unnatural for them. Even if your beliefs say Left hands are wrong. Get into the 21st century and get rid of the 3000 year old superstitions and nonsense. John Lester of the Red Sox is a perfect example of a left handed person doing well and excelling in his task. Didn't your God give him that ability?

The child will choose "which had to use" irrespective of how they are raised. Raising them "right handed" when they are really "left handed" will just cause unnecessary strain in the parent/child relationship, and could result in long-term psychological damage to the child. It would be sad for a child to learn at the age of 18, 25 or 30 that they were really "left handed" and then sadly reflect upon their younger years essentially as "years lost". While all of their "right handed" friends were happy developing as youngsters in their "right handed" worlds, and their "left handed" friends were developing in their "left handed" worlds, the child could grow to become a full adult and be experiencing their world for the first time...essentially being, acting like, and making the same mistakes as, an adolescent while living an adult life. This will cause strain for them as they try to develop relationships with other "left handed" adults who are comfortable with their "left handedness".

A "left handed" parent will be far more in-tune and accepting of which "hand" the child will use than most "right handed" parents. Remember, most "right handed" parents view their way as the correct way, while most "left handed" parents don't establish which is the correct way as both are perfectly acceptable.

I' m not left-handed. But I wouldn't promise to raise a kid with any kind of persuasion of any sort. I'm only going to teach my kids the Word of God. That is something they can read for themselves. Therefore, if they grow to be a different religion than me. Well, @ least they will have gotten the info. out of the Bible.

I wouldn't make a promise to anything. The child should be allowed to freely chose how he/she wants to write. My parents did so; what do ya kno, I'm left-handed! Does it really matter, society makes things so complex nowadays. It's all the same.

lol You have me practically rolling in the floor. My mom whipped my brother when he was little so he would stop using his left hand and use his right. Since I have turned up so dyslexic, I really think she did that to me, too. Oh god! Now I'm a joke on R/S!

But what if the child IS left-handed? Then the right-handers are gonna look at that family and say "See! We told you this would happen!"

LOL! And red haired adopters should promise to raise their child as a brunette. Forcibly dyeing their hair, if necessary.

Normal hair is black or dark brown. More than 94 per cent of humans worldwide have black or dark brown hair. Blondes and redheads are therefore ABNORMAL and UNNATURAL. It's a SIN!!!

[Grey hair, of course, is a DISEASE: grey heads are disproportionately represented in hospitals and nursing homes.]

Furthermore, hair colour is a CHOICE!!. This is obvious when you check the hair dye section in your supermarket. Those who say they are born with their hair colour are wrong - everyone knows most babies are born bald or nearly bald.

dear uncle Wayne, no I would not make promises I wouldn't keep. If he's left handed , he will, remain that way, and if he's right handed, well then he's right handed.

my mother was a southpaw & i am right handed

let me use the hand that was dominant

she said that in school they always tried to change her to right hand,

but she couldn't get it

now we just get her all sorts of gizmos designed for lefties

there's a few websites for cool gifts & things for lefties.