An interesting subject and one which has still to be researched further. Some of the adoptees were also illegitimate children of the adopter and this adoption may have been a cover up for a guilty conscience. Others may have other views and examples. Some adoptees were treated just as well as their legitimate siblings and were not begrudged educational opportunities either. There were also others who were mistreated and abused by the adoptors and this is a tragedy. Some adopted children achieved such eminent positions and did so well in life that they even were able to rescue the family property when it fell to foreclosure or was rescued from decay and collapse by the adoptees just to preservce the family name.
Let us therefore look more deeply into this phemoninon. Is it trait unique to Goa or are similar circumstances common in India. Manuel (Eddie) Tavares.
