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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Super old thread but I am an adoptee and I am definitely not unhappy.  I will add though that I have always thought this way but now that I have bio kids of my own I would never do a combination of both bio and adopted kids.  My house was just me and my sister (twins and adopted together), no bio kids.  The families that had the most mixed up baggage were the ones who had a combo of bio and adopted kids.  A lot of potential psychological problems down the road IMO. [/quote]

I'm an adult adoptee in a family that had biological children.  My older brother is biological and my parents' next child died in birth and they were told they couldn't have more children.  I never felt like I was treated differently or anything--except in the ways that reflected our individual differences--and we're close in adulthood.  It hasn't been a major issue for me--though in adolescence I had some identity issues around being adopted (though not all that worse than my DH who wasn't adopted or my own teen kid now).  So, like many things, I think it varies case by case--I don't know if the research suggests any differences--I haven't looked at it.

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