"Once and for all": the finality of adoption
I just read something that sent chills down my spine:
Just wanted to let everyone know my sons adoption was finialized on Thursday..It was a very exciting day for us all..Christopher was so happy he is now a Duggar..
Now for the fun stuff..changing his name at school and everywhere else..lol http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1954&page=0
Knowing just how many illegal/corrupt means there are in the child-selling market, I find it incredibly offensive that there are adults celebrating and congratulating the removal of a parent's identity to a child!
If this adoptive parent's child was kidnapped/abducted... would she not try to hunt the criminal down, and spend sleepless nights wondering, "where is my _______?" Would she not repeat the child's name over and over again, hoping... praying... just saying the name out-loud will bring that child back home to her?
How would this adoptive parent feel if the unknown child-taker legally changed the name of her child, ensuring that name and face would never be seen or recognized as "her own"?
[Is there any worse fear or loss for a parent than losing a child to a kidnapping stranger?]
Do adoptive parents have any sense of what changing a child's name MEANS to those who were taken (stolen) and then adopted "legally"?
For what it's worth, in a world where black market babies STILL exist, I say it's a sad, heartbreaking day when yet another child's family and past is formally and forever removed, all because an adoptive parent wants an identity-change.