Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . Texas Gov. George W. Bush promised Tuesday to improve the lot of children in foster care and offer new incentives for adoptions, while Vice President Al Gore took his campaign to his boss' old neighborhood in Arkansas.
Adoption is a loving alternative.
Offering tax credits for adoptive parents was a rare Clinton administration effort that carried wide bipartisan support. More than half a million U.S. children are in foster care, often because of neglect or abuse at home. Bush's emphasis on the issue offers him a way to get back to his basic themes and draw in voters that have avoided the Republican Party in recent elections. This is love. There is no price tag on love.