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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 470763" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>MWM, thanks for that reminder about adoption. Sometimes I think one of my kids doesn't have adoption issues, but I suspect he must be thinking what Jumper articulated.</p><p></p><p>And I'm finding i need to be careful in how I raise the whole birth control issue. I told my son the other day that he is now the same age as his bm was when she got pregnant. And asked him whether he felt like he was ready to be a dad. And told him that's how maybe his birthmother might have been feeling. But trying not at the same time to be critical of her lack of birth control and bringing a child into the world she couldn't care for --trying to talk about mistakes but not give my son the feeling that he was a mistake, if you know what I mean. And I wonder about her. She was on her way certainly to being a difficult child from what I understand, but after she placed my son for adoption she spiralled downwards into heavy heavy drug use. </p><p></p><p>I hope this pregnancy will help your daughter come to a deeper understanding of her own adoption, if nothing else. Hugs to you, Nancy. We are at the beginning stages of letting our child own his own struggle to become a responsible adult and it is so hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 470763, member: 2322"] MWM, thanks for that reminder about adoption. Sometimes I think one of my kids doesn't have adoption issues, but I suspect he must be thinking what Jumper articulated. And I'm finding i need to be careful in how I raise the whole birth control issue. I told my son the other day that he is now the same age as his bm was when she got pregnant. And asked him whether he felt like he was ready to be a dad. And told him that's how maybe his birthmother might have been feeling. But trying not at the same time to be critical of her lack of birth control and bringing a child into the world she couldn't care for --trying to talk about mistakes but not give my son the feeling that he was a mistake, if you know what I mean. And I wonder about her. She was on her way certainly to being a difficult child from what I understand, but after she placed my son for adoption she spiralled downwards into heavy heavy drug use. I hope this pregnancy will help your daughter come to a deeper understanding of her own adoption, if nothing else. Hugs to you, Nancy. We are at the beginning stages of letting our child own his own struggle to become a responsible adult and it is so hard. [/QUOTE]
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