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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are adoptive parents and we were hypothetically talking about divorce. He mentioned that he thinks we have even less right than most parents to get a divorce because 1) presumably the birth parents chose married parents to raise their children and might not have made the decision otherwise, so we 'owe' them to stay together if at all possible; and 2) at some point our kids will understand they lost their first family so we have a higher standard to maintain the only family they've ever known for stability's sake. He wasn't talking about abuse or cheating, just the bar to get a divorce if one spouse is unhappy, which we agree is extraordinarily high even with bio kids. We aren't actually about to divorce; this was hypothetical, but I'm curious how common his thinking is.[/quote]
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