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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. I don't even have memorized the date she became legally ours. But adoption is born out of loss, always - the loss of a bond between a mother and her child. That's not something to celebrate. [/quote] My child lost their mother, and their father (although he was never identified, so that's a different kind of loss). Later, he became part of our family. Although I strongly believe that unethical practices in adoption can and frequently do cause children to lose their birth families, in my child's situation those two things were definitely separate. If adoption hadn't been an option, then he simply wouldn't have had a family, or would have been in foster care. So, while the loss is hard, and something to be mourned, the fact that he ended up in our family isn't, and is worth celebrating. [/quote]
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