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I came across a blog the other day that basically said that most of the blogging adoptive parents concerned with ethics were just trying to get with the blogging birth moms. You know, toeing the old party line not because the line is worth toeing but because we’re playing a popularity contest. Lord knows that in the adoption game? The birth moms? Totally the most coolest.

And I’m here to tell you that it’s TRUE. That IS why adoptive parent bloggers write about ethics! That IS why they’re critical of the adoption industry! It’s not the industry, which after all only wants to help poor orphans find parents (oh wait — never mind). Listen, situations like the one in Florida where the totally awesome Choose Life license plates are raising “funds to support adoption efforts of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Maternity Homes and not-for-profit adoption agencies” are really for the good of everybody. At least that’s what I’d say if I wasn’t gunning to sit at the totally cool birth mom table at the cafeteria!

I mean, those ladies? They have twinkies!

And it’s why I pretend to believe those angry old adoptees what with their grief and stuff even though I so totally know that if you love an adoptee enough you can erase that ridiculous need some of them have to know their “roots” (because we all know that when the birth certificate gets changed? It changes you inside, too! because they’re magic birth certificates!). As for those angry/unhappy adoptees, well, I’m sure they’re just trying to get in on the twinkies like I am.

Because adoption — it is the awesome! And for every angry adoptee or unhappy birth mom you can find I can find lots more really happy ones, which doesn’t prove that everyone is different but actually proves that everyone who’s different (i.e., unhappy) is wrong!

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