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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
If you don't know, you should not be adopting or having step-kids.  It absolutely is not the same.  A child through adoption is your child, no different from birth.  A step-child is yours through marriage.[/quote]A child thru adoption is not the same as your own child.
It is someone elses child that you hope will not have any contact with its original family. And you might have to deal with the baggage that comes when and if that kid descides to trace its roots. And there are medical issues, psychological etc
But for many that is the only way they can have children.
For the adoptee a lingering sense of loss, a feeling of abandonement[/quote]

No.

My adopted children are my children. Period.

If they decide to have contact with their birth families, I would be supportive and help them. And yes, I'll deal with issues come with their decisions and any medical or psychological issues they have too. That's what you do for your children.

I'm sorry for your pain PP, you sound like an adult adoptee whose parents were assholes. But lots of people have lingering issues because their parents were assholes, not just adoptees.[/quote]

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