[LMB] Single children (Was China)

[Bear Master]

On 9/7/07, quietann <quietann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I will admit that my parents did something that is fairly horrifying by
> today's standards. I am their only biological child, and was showing signs
> of becoming bratty and spoiled, although I was in general a good kid, so
> they adopted my brother when I was 4, so I'd learn that I could not be the
> center of the universe all the time.


"Fairly" horrifying?  You think?

As an adoption advocate, I'm trying to see the glass as half full, a kid
that needed a home got one.  But I can't get past the idea of adopting a
child for the sole reason of knocking the biological child down a peg.

I don't know your family, so please don't take this personally, but this is
the worst thing I have heard of since a couple had a child because the older
child needed a bone marrow transplant.  And the story made the national
news, so no way the child will row up not knowing the only reason she was
born was to part her out for her sister.