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Just got back from visiting my son at his Residential Treatment Center (RTC)
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 686560" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I agree with all of this:Absolutely. This is the point. </p><p></p><p>But I believe this is true for nearly everybody in life. Adopted or birth. Life takes worth if you want to get it right. And "right" is individually determined. Nothing worth getting in life, I believe, comes easy. You work at it.</p><p>As we are like our own birth parents. Sometimes I hear myself or see myself in the mirror and there is my mother.</p><p></p><p>But the thing is, sometimes I see my son (adopted) and right there, too, is my mother, the gestures I acquired from her, and he from me. What does it matter if our adopted or birth children resemble their parents genetically? It is life choices that matter and make a life. Not genetics. We are humans not animals. In animals genetics are determinative. It is hard for a collie to be a chihauhau. A siamese cannot decide to bark. But a human can.</p><p>As do our birth children. </p><p></p><p>Of course this is correct.</p><p></p><p>And both adoptive children and birth children, too, decide upon their own lives. Either way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 686560, member: 18958"] I agree with all of this:Absolutely. This is the point. But I believe this is true for nearly everybody in life. Adopted or birth. Life takes worth if you want to get it right. And "right" is individually determined. Nothing worth getting in life, I believe, comes easy. You work at it. As we are like our own birth parents. Sometimes I hear myself or see myself in the mirror and there is my mother. But the thing is, sometimes I see my son (adopted) and right there, too, is my mother, the gestures I acquired from her, and he from me. What does it matter if our adopted or birth children resemble their parents genetically? It is life choices that matter and make a life. Not genetics. We are humans not animals. In animals genetics are determinative. It is hard for a collie to be a chihauhau. A siamese cannot decide to bark. But a human can. As do our birth children. Of course this is correct. And both adoptive children and birth children, too, decide upon their own lives. Either way. [/QUOTE]
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