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My daughter is a product of an open adoption; she's 7. She's busy right now packing up a box of her too-small clothes for her sister, who is not a part of our family. But she is a part of my daughter's family, and will be for long after I'm gone. I'm glad to be able to give her this experience.
If this sounds a little too weird for some, well, sorry. I don't view it as any different than gaining a child through divorce or remarriage. Are these people's familes of a different sort than "regular" families? The fact is all families are composed of groups of people who may or may not be related genetically. The relations of a spouse are your relations too, or so I would hope. In our family we have sets of people who are effectively in-laws: mine, my wife's, and my daughter's.
It's clearly tempting for some people to use this a platform to display their wit. It just looks like prejudice when it's on paper.
