Thanks very much for your post. I couldn't agree more.
My family would be very small, and not nearly as happy, if adoption didn't exist. For instance, my mother was extremely close to her brother (who was adopted) while my sisters and I (all biological) have absolutely nothing in common but some DNA. We just try to avoid each other....so much for biology!
Personally, I think the "adoption trauma" thing has been really played up by "professionals" to make people who have aborted their children feel better about it. That is, they can tell themselves that if they'd placed their child for adoption, their child would have been damaged beyond repair....and was better off aborted. Of course, it's all garbage, but they don't care about that.
It's had a damaging effect though....I know an adoptive mom who was desperately trying to convince a friend whose daughter was pregnant not to take her to have an abortion. She tried to get her to consider placing the baby for adoption instead. The friend said, "Oh no, I could never do that to a grandchild," and the baby was aborted. It's tragic.
However, posts like yours are like a bucket of water on the Wicked Witch of the West. Please keep speaking out.
Absolutely amazing. Can't let the "grandchild" be adopted, but can cut it up and suck it into a sink. Words fail me.
On a happier note, I can also tell of some very good friends who just returned from Cambodia with a beautiful little girl they adopted! They are so excited. My other adopted relatives include a girl from one of Mother Theresa's orphanages in India, and a boy from an orphanage in Peru.
Abortion kills. Adoption builds families.