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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an adoptive parent with contact with my child's birth mother and a sibling of an adoptee who is in the middle of a birth parent search. In my experience, the issue of birth family contact is more akin to "adding to" vs. "replacing" the adoptive parents. I think the media does a terrible job with reunion stories because they always focus just on the birth family - child link and gloss over the rest. The script always seems to be that bio = destiny and the stories are always rosy. You don't see the stories of the prior PP with the dad who sexually abused his nieces, for example. The adoptive parents always wind up in the background, if mentioned at all, and there's little follow up three years later to see how it's all played out. I'm not sure it's intentional, it's just the story arc they use because it fits their preconceived notions and those of their viewers.

IMO, the media to a large extent is very ignorant on the entire topic...I already fired off a letter in my head this morning to various news outlets that are reporting on Barbara Walter's daughter's DUI by repeatedly calling her "Barbara Walters' adopted daughter" as if the way she became Barbara's daughter is germane to the story. I'm still waiting to see a news story that identifies people by their method of conception. "Mickey Mouse's conceived-by-IVF-son was arrested for speeding yesterday" or "Minnie Mouse's condom-broke daughter has graduated from college..."
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