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In reply to the discussion: Adoptees, Friends of Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Parents - Check In Here [View all]AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,926 posts)28. My folks got two foster kids when I was in High School
Then adopted them. They have met their older sister, in another foster home. They came to our home from another foster home they were kicked out of because their birth mother had another kid out of wedlock and the then foster parents didn't want the brother and sister of a 'bastard' in their house. They had other foster kids too. They had been taken from their birth mother and grandmother because they were being burned with cigarets to 'drive out demons.' Some kids need protection from the strangeness in our world. My partners sister adopted two girls, I know one has met her birth mother. The other adopted a boy, then had a birth son.
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Adoptees, Friends of Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Parents - Check In Here [View all]
Beearewhyain
Nov 2013
OP
Birth parent pain and suffering is also very common. We need to acknowledge that (eom)
StevieM
Nov 2013
#34
You are working on the assumption that your birth parents don't want to "be bothered"
StevieM
Nov 2013
#39
We finalized the adoption of our wonderful daughter six months ago this week
WhollyHeretic
Nov 2013
#15
Children are not gifts to be given. And losing a child to adoption can be quite tramatic (eom)
StevieM
Nov 2013
#43
I am sure that many adoptive parents are indeed grateful. And many others close the adoption
StevieM
Nov 2013
#54
My brother and I were adopted by my (step) father when my parents married.
Behind the Aegis
Nov 2013
#48