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It is hard for me to understand the kind of presumption that would lead someone to make declarations about:
- When other people should have children.
- What counts as a "real" family for someone else.
- What is the "right way" for someone to go about caring for and loving a child whose original parent cannot care for them.
We call this bad boundaries - when you think you have the right to make judgments and poke your nose into other people's private lives. It's their family, their life. You don't get to decide whether it is "real."
Letters like these are the antithesis to the honesty, love, and respect for others Dawn Friedman demonstrates in her article. It is obvious why Jessica chose her and her husband to be Madison's parents, and so lucky that she didn't end up with these other kinds of people who fancy themselves such experts on love and family, and would teach her their small-minded ways.
