"Tangled" the movie- negative theme re: adoption?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tangled isn't about adoption. Rapunzel was kidnapped not adopted.

Yes . We get it. Do you understand how a young child might see a character being raised by a non bio mom and get confused? It's hard enough for adults to understand the logistics of adoption.

You explain she was kidnapped and is held against her will for her hair. It has zero to do with adoption! No, I don't see how a 4 yo would conflate abusive kidnapping with adoption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an adult adoptee and while I don't have an issue as the evil hag presented as the real mom because I'm an adult, I would just exercise caution with a young adoptee. If you don't have adopted children, then you may not be as sensitive to such an issue, or you probably don't even see an issue.

+1. Not sure why people are being so mean and dismissive. Kids think differently and adoption IS complex-- I'm not an adoptive mom, but I can understand given all the issues around adoption why a parent would be sensitive about it, and I can imagine a young girl in a snit yelling that her mom is an evil thief and her real mom wouldn't do ___.

+2 from an adoptive mom

+3 from an adoptee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I saw the movie and think it's super cute. PPs are right that the story involves a kidnapping, not adoption. However, my sister (biological) used to scream at my parents when she didn't get her way: "You're not my real family. My real family loves me. They're going to come for me one day and you're going to be in so much trouble." If your child already thinks along these lines - that she's a victim and everyone's out to get her, then this could add fuel to the fire, but if yours is a little more sane, then nothing to worry about with the film. It's a more feminist version of the Rapunzel story, so I would definitely show it to my daughter.

Oh wow. Now we're accusing adopted kids of playing the victim card/being crazy if they haven't come to terms 100% with their adoption? You have no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tangled isn't about adoption. Rapunzel was kidnapped not adopted.

Yes . We get it. Do you understand how a young child might see a character being raised by a non bio mom and get confused? It's hard enough for adults to understand the logistics of adoption.

You explain she was kidnapped and is held against her will for her hair. It has zero to do with adoption! No, I don't see how a 4 yo would conflate abusive kidnapping with adoption.

She is not held against her will... Sort of. She is certainly not in chains and in fact easily escapes the first time she ever attempts escape. There is more to their relationship than hair. The kidnapper appears to Rapunzel as an overly protective mother but no worse than that until the very end.

[Anonymous]

Kids get freaked out by all sorts of illogical things. Why are so many on this thread resisting the notion that an adoptee "may" have a bad reaction to a movie that really is about an... let's call it a very unethical adoption

[Anonymous]

In all seriousness there is a growing body of research that suggests adoption creates trauma, even in the best of circumstances. You can go on all day about how no rational adult would conflate legal adoption with kidnapping. But if you suspect your young child may react differently you need to accept that.