Adopted Childrens Personalities in Relation to Biological and Adopted Parents
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psychology
case study
date published 21/04/2008
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Adoption is a word that is thrown around all too much today in the English language. In 2004, we adopt a greyhound, adopt a soldier overseas, and adopt a tree. Needless to say, all of these uses for adopt has led the masses to be distracted as to what adoption truly is. The true definition of child adoption is a legal proceeding that creates parent-child relations between persons not related by blood; [and] the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (Wordnet 2.0 Online. 2004). In my case, this is exactly what adoption means for me as well. I was adopted shortly after birth, never living with my birth parents. A wonderful couple took me into their hearts and home, always telling me that even though you are not the child of our bodies, you are still the child of our heart. After being adopted over nineteen years ago, it is not something I remember; though it is something I still have questions about. Just as every adolescent questions, Who am I? many adopted persons deal with the same lingering thoughts.

