Talk of the Nation listeners wrote to the show to share their ideas about how best to have a meaningful retirement. Others shared stories about the challenges of trans-racial adoptions following interviews on that topic.
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NEAL CONAN, host:
It's Tuesday and time for your comments. We asked how the economy changed your plans about what to do with what could easily be 20 good years after retirement.
Jim in Michigan sent this comment: I think it's fine that people can do great things for their community in retirement. However, too often, it's what retirement? As a self-employed attorney, I do not make great amounts of money, and I do not see any golden retirement in my future or in too many others. I'm not an affluent person who needs a hobby. I practice law to eat.
Chad Dawkins(ph) in San Antonio is some way for from retirement and wrote: As disheartening as it is to hear about the current circumstances of retirees, I, as a 30-year-old, am far more concerned with my future and the understanding I've had since childhood, that I will never be able to retire in the sense that we currently understand it. He continued: In the past, I have competed for menial jobs with retirees and unemployed professionals alike. I fear the future of that competition for the younger generation once the baby boomers hit retirement.
Our program on trans-racial adoptions brought back memories for many listeners who were adopted.
Veronica in Santa Cruz sent this email: In my experience, it's been a special privilege to be a trans-racial adoptee. I am Chilean and my parents are both Caucasian. I was adopted as a newborn and my parents approached my South American roots as something to be celebrated and loved even then. I appreciate my parents' easy way of accepting and discussing difference with me: mine, theirs and others. I was able to grow up aware, yet proud of my different heritage and feel secure as part of a loving family.
Emily in New York had a different experience: I was adopted from South Korea at five months by Caucasian parents and grew up in rural New England. My identity really was not an issue growing up. I felt like everyone else. Now that I live in New York, she wrote, I've had to deal with my race head on. I feel like a white person trapped in the body of a Korean. I don't hold anything against my parents. I think they just didn't fathom that I might have to deal with any of these issues.
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