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I don't know...the fury, rhetoric and pathology of Laurel's denigration of open adoption -- and adoption in general -- makes her sound an awful lot like the infamous anti-adoption wingding Tricia Vaughan Smith, who also, in an oxyomoronic twist, does a really bad ersatz comedy routine called "The Comic Mom."
Anyway...most of these anti-adoption fanatics were adopted themselves, and apparently hold adoption responsible for the less-than-perfect parental skills of their adoptive parents, or perhaps for their own mental health challenges and serotonin imbalances.
Ignore them, because they are not personally prepared to finance every single mother around the world who can't afford to care for her child. They don't have a solution, they just have complaints and whines and gripes, and "poor me, I was adopted" rants and raves, and blatherings about blood and "real" mothers versus "custodians."
They'd rather see children aborted, living in orphanages, in poverty, or dead of disease and malnutrition, then with adoptive parents.
Yeah, I'll take Laurel, and her adoption-hating pals seriously when they actually have some sort of idea of what to DO to help the mothers they think should have no right to make an adoption plan, and the children who have no future...
Sign me...
Disgusted with the Anti-Adoption People
