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Reply to "Child Joining Family through Adoption is NOT an Adopted Child"
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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who formed their family via adoption, I understand where OP is coming from---but agree with the PP who suggested that there are much bigger and important hills for OP to take a stand on. The one that always got me was when people would constantly inquire "what happened to their REAL parents?" There is a voyeurism inherent in many people's inquiries to adoptive families which is incredibly insensitive. As one PP noted---there is always the trauma with adoption that a birth parent decided not to parent. No matter how much my DC can wrap their mind intellectually around the numerous reasons why that was--there is still residual pain. So when people ask adoptive parents the "but what happened to their REAL parents" question---essentially they are asking someone to disclose the most painful parts of their child's history to satisfy idle curiosity. [/quote]
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