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JDPriestly

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5. True. Nowadays, people who adopt can have open adoptions

Reply to freshwest (Reply #4)

Sun Aug 19, 2012, 04:24 PM

Aug 2012

in which the birth mother can have contact with the child.

A lot of adopted children wonder about what life would have been had they lived with their "real" father or mother.

Adoptive parents can be wonderful, but the child who loves the adoptive parents may still want to connect to his/her roots. I know of such a case. The child was deeply disappointed to discover that his father died before the child could find him.

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Dan Rather Reports, "Adopted or Abducted?" Promo for May 1, 2012 [View all] me b zola Aug 2012 OP

This appears to be yet another atempt to paint adoptive parents with a very negative brush. MarianJack Aug 2012 #1

yeah- those absolutely horrible adoptive parents should all be in jail... stlsaxman Aug 2012 #2

Again, this issue is not about adoptive parents me b zola Aug 2012 #3

Forcing women to go to term and give their babies up for adoption was SOP before Roe vs. Wade and freshwest Aug 2012 #4

True. Nowadays, people who adopt can have open adoptions JDPriestly Aug 2012 #5

I was horrified when watching the disaster in Haiti to learn about their adoption mill me b zola Aug 2012 #6