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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If you're providing a home for a unwanted abandoned child you've done a great thing. What else is there to say????[/quote] With all due respect, as someone who adopted an older child, and has been told this numerous times, I think it oversimplifies a very complex situation. That attitude sends an implicit message to adopted kids that they should be grateful that someone "saved" them. It can be be really stifling to the children---especially in situations where the child may have been an adopted at an older age and spent years hoping and being on best behavior in order to get "picked" by a family. I'm nowhere near a perfect mom. No mom is. And my child---regardless of how they joined our family---has a right to the same exasperations and frustrations with me as any biological child has with their mother. [/quote]
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