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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
Also, when I tell people I may consider adopting an older kid or teen at some point:
"But why would you want someone ELSE'S kid?"
"I could never love a kid that I didn't actually give birth to."
"But why would you want to miss out on the birth experience?"
Motherhood comes in many forms. To insist that a child "is not yours" because they're adopted is really offensive. Also, not everyone wants "the baby experience."
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This is one of my don't-get-me-starteds. As many of you know, five of ours are transracially adopted. From the moment they came in the door, they were (are) OURS and we didn't divide them into the adopteds versus the non-adopteds.
People of all races had something to say, most good, but some not. These were people we didn't know, like strangers in malls. I will never figure out why they thought they had the right to comment.
I so love my now-adult babies.
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