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To: 50mm

The term “real” is not used to describe the sperm / egg donor parents any longer. It is “biological” or “birth”, versus “adoptive” or simple “parents”. “Real” is who raised you, who loves you, who sacrificed for you.

I have friends who have “snowflake babies” — children born from a frozen (then thawed) egg/sperm donors, then implanted into my friend. She is the “adoptive” and “birth” parent because she carried the child in her womb, and she and her husband did a legal “embryo adoption” through the courts.

Personally, I don’t at all agree with creating life this way as a believer in Jesus Christ. I don’t judge them for their choice, but I wish they would have quietly and confidentially taken this unconventional route without ever revealing to their children how they were conceived, bought, paid for, and adopted. She’s the birth mom — she (and husband) are “real” parents. It is creating too much identity crisis and confusion for them, IMHO.

I am my four children’s “real” and “adoptive” mother, and they remember well their own “biological” or “birth” parents, as they call them.


59 posted on 05/30/2007 1:50:28 PM PDT by adopt4Him (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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To: adopt4Him
We went the open adoption route and it's been great. I was the Lamaze coach for the birth mother for my older son's birth. The biological mother's parents have become defacto grandparents for my boys - something they otherwise would not have had. We spend holidays with the biological family and even attend church together on occasion.

We told each of our boys at a young age about the adoptions and this has made our family stronger. Our boys know they were wanted and chosen. They would have figured out the adoption themselves anyway since they resemble their biological mother's family and don't look like my wife and me at all.

I'm happy that you were able to adopt as well. I'm sure you have found it as fulfilling as me or you wouldn't have done it four times.

64 posted on 05/30/2007 2:43:46 PM PDT by 50mm (la prensa dos en traducir mi línea de etiqueta al inglés)
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