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Reply to "Child Joining Family through Adoption is NOT an Adopted Child"
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[quote=Anonymous]Well, this thread went off the rails :shock: I'm an adult adoptee in reunion with my birth family. I am indeed an adopted child; I did not join my family through birth. I agree that too often, an adoptee is described as an adopted child when that fact isn't relevant. I don't like that and never have; don't get me started on the word "natural" either! But at times, I also think there are occasional situations when it's entirely appropriate (and necessary) to use the descriptor "adopted" without malice or exclusion. I am also an adoptive parent (and I have a child I birthed) and it seems to me that OP's situation is an outlier in terms of the blending and involvement of both adoptive and birth families. My own adoption story and my child's adoption story are nothing alike and neither is like OP's at all either. I think each adoption story is unique and each adoptee's feelings are different; too different to be generalized.[/quote]
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