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To: Poet who wrote (560289)	4/5/2004 4:50:51 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

whattsa matta Pet? you not getting the answers you want???awwwwwwwww.

To: Poet who wrote (560289)	4/5/2004 5:16:03 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Either you're a self-deluded liar or simply incapable of having a compassionate conversation. You made the claim that "Adoption, particularly transracial and transcultural adoption, is an extraordinarily difficult thing for both parent and child, and should not be blithely bandied about as the ultimate solution." You made this claim based upon personal experience. I merely did likewise in response to your claim. I don't see how that makes me a liar and how it makes me lacking in compassion. I simply think many people have a very flawed view on race, especially as it relates to adoption. I think you are like many people, based upon this sad post of yours. You make adopting children of other races seem like such a disgusting and terrible burden, something that results in a family freak that cries inconsolably at night for having incurred a tragic loss of "her people." I have had exactly the opposite experience. As a believer, adopted by God into His family, my son's adoption came to us as naturally as could be. At no time have I felt I have missed out on my heathen culture because of having been received by God. Likewise, my son has never thought that he had any other people in this world than the family that has loved him from infancy. His curiosity about his superficial biological differences became the curiosity of us all. His experiences became ours and ours became his. No one ever thought otherwise. We never really had a choice in the thing. I can't judge your circumstances, not knowing them. I utterly reject your view because I have discovered and live a better way. If that means I lack compassion, then so be it. My child has never cried merely because of this issue. We actually loved it.