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Jedediah, that is exactly what I was thinking. They are yearning for the loving embrace of an intact family with parents who love them. This is often NOT the reality of families, and what is visible from the outside is often not what is really going on.

I connected up with a childhood friend recently. She told me she had loved our family, it had seemed like Leave it to Beaver to her. “Really?” I responded. Our dad was really mean and angry, it was anything but the Cleavers. And yet ... it blessed her and we had so much, regardless.

What about the babies born through IVF for loving couples for reasons of fertility problems? Are they not going to be blessed in intact families, with extended family all around them throughout their lives? Should they even be told? The method of their conception should not be as much of a problem as the way they are nurtured, and I don't need to point out all the naturally-conceived children from broken, abusive, or uncaring families. The children conceived through these methods should NEVER be made to feel inferior in any way, and, in most loving and caring families, never will, praise God. I am Catholic, and I understand and support the Church's position on these kinds of methods, but I think we all agree that the children brought forth should always be welcomed with great love.