From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jack Tackett wrote:
> Congrats - I turn 42 tomorrow (always the answer to everything :-) and for
> my birthday we adopted a little boy, ah the joys of sleep deprivation!
Congratulations on your new son, Jack!
Congrats to you. How old is the little boy? My parents adopted me when I was 3 days old. Mom was 40 at the time and Dad was 41 but only about a month away from turning 42.
Since adoption has come up, I'll throw out a topic I was just thinking about:
On my town's mailing list just recently, one parent of two adopted children asked another poster to refrain from further use of the term "adopt-a-*" after she asked for donations for a Christmas "Adopt-A-Family" toy donation charity. He felt that using the word "adopt" applied in ways that were transient, trivial, and/or non-personal (ie: adopt-a-highway, "adopt this measure", adopt-a-stray, etc), would confuse his adopted girls and undermine their confidence and security. They might worry that their adoptions were also not a permanent or serious thing.
My own take in this is that he would be better to teach the girls the distinction between the usages/meanings of the word adopted, rather than trying to restrict the uasge of the language and potentially making it into a term that makes the girls wince or be offended when they do hear it.
But then, I'm not an adopter/adoptee so I may not be properly sensitive to the issue. Does he have a point? Is using the word adopt in these alternate ways offensive?
-bryon
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