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[quote=Anonymous]I think people might also want to keep in mind that our ideas about child rearing have changed, probably for the better in most cases. When I was a kid in the 70's, abuse was often swept under the rug. It was also acceptable to keep information about their origins from kids. This also means that the standards for adoptive parents have changed. When I was a kid, several of the adoptive parents I knew were alcoholics. I'd like to think that today, none of these people would make it through a screening. I think this means that the experiences of adoptees today will hopefully be different from people who were adopted between 1950 and 1980, when the big requirement for adoptive parents was a pulse. (The recent article on evangelicals "rehoming" adoptees from Liberia, however, doesn't support my hypothesis). [/quote]
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