Reply #11: Adoption isn't perfect. [View All]

[politicat]

My step-father was adopted. His adoptive mother held it against him every day of his life that he was a bastard. She was cold, controlling, and cruel. When she died, she left him 1 dollar of her very large estate.

Why did she adopt? Because that's what people did back then when they couldn't have children.

I work with an organization that works with children in therapy who are being abused because they're adopted. Holding therapy and re-birthing therapy scars and kills adopted children because their adoptive parents don't realize that not all children are alike.

These kids go through hell at the hands of their therapits and their adoptive parents - often a worse hell than they experienced with their natal families.

Personally, while I'd never wish a child that's here to be dead, there are a lot of cases where never having come into being at all would be a better option than living to be tortured.

For the record, I do not believe in the soul, and I don't believe the basis for consciousness begins until at least the end of the second trimester.

Pcat