An Adopted Child is loved

Added: 05/31/2007

Many people like and love children. In addition, because of this fact, many people wish to have children. There are two ways people can have children; the ways in which people can have children is via pregnancy or via adoption. People who love children probably have no preference whether there children are naturally their or adopted.

Many people like and love children. In addition, die to this fact, many people wish to and do have children either via pregnancy or via adoption. In fact, many couples who can’t get pregnant do adopt a child or children. Moreover, some couple only have children that are adopted by choice. Plus, there are many families that have one naturally born child and one adopted child. Sometimes the siblings are close in age and sometimes the siblings are far apart in age. In fact, some adopted and naturally born children are at least a decade apart in age. The fact that one child is ten years older than the other child will not necessarily affect the bond that the siblings form towards each other. In fact, it may be a good idea that either the adopted sibling or the naturally born sibling is ten years apart in age. This is because the older sibling can be a babysitter for the younger sibling when the parents out for a while during the day or night. This babysitting idea will only work if the adopted child and the naturally born child get along with each other. The younger adopted child can and often does learn the ropes from the older child such as what days the family eats out and what the family eats during the week and weekends. Also, they can help the younger adopted child with the chores in the family. However, the most important thing that a naturally born child can do for an adopted child is love him or her.

It has been claimed by some sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists that adopted children might feel unloved and neglected by their adopted parents. This is due to the fact that some adopted children might feel that their adopted parents don’t love them as much as their naturally born children. This phenomenon is sometimes labeled the adopted child syndrome by sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. The adopted child syndrome might be true if the parents are just mean and uncaring people However, it seems that the adopted child syndrome is bunk. This is because parents who would love one of their children less than their other children would probably not love their other children in some fashion at some point in the children’s lives. In other words, unloving parents will be unloving to all of their children; adopted or natural. These types of parents probably shouldn’t be parents. Therefore, it seems like the adopted child syndrome is a fantasy or a least not as bad as the above professionals make it out to be. This syndrome is being blown out of proportion just like step children sometimes got the wrong impression about step mothers from watching Disney movies such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella.

Most adopted parents love their adopted children and their naturally born children the same. Parents who love their children a lot seem to understand that there is enough love to go around for all of their children. Did you know that many celebrities have adopted children? Angelina Jolie has three adopted children and Marie Osmond has eight children, five of which are adopted children. Moreover, she has created dolls that represent all of her children. It seems that the adopted child is loved just as must as the naturally born child.

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