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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Btw I have also heard of this day referred to as a “traumaversary”.[/quote]

That's absurd.  [/quote]

No it isn't.  The day my child came into my care was the day the police broke down a door and removed her and she saw her bio father arrested.  And if you have ever heard a bio mother cry when parental rights are terminated.you would understand it is not something to celebrate.  [/quote]does that really happen? Relinquishing a child for adoption is voluntary[/quote]

Yes FFS!  Children are removed from their homes for abuse and neglect by the child welfare authority.  If no relative or kin-like person can be found, the child stays in foster care.  Eventually if the bio parents cannot regain custody, parental rights may be terminated and the child legally freed for adoption.  They may be adopted by the current foster parent or by someone else.  It is all up to the court.  So for my child, there is no "gotcha" day celebration because coming into my care is all tied up with that stuff.  It is terribly painful to think that nobody in the extended bio family stepped up for this child.  But that is what happened and my child was old enough to understand it at the time.  It's very hard.[/quote]

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