[LMB] Single children (Was China)

[Bear Master]

On 9/8/07, quietann <quietann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/8/07, Bear Master <bearmaster0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
>
> Yes.  I agree. However -- this was 1968.
>
> 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.
>
>
> That was *not* the only reason; I should have made it more clear.


Thank you for the clairification.  The horror meter is no longer pegged at
11.