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From: "GS Gary Smith (1555)" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] RE: Is an adoption the end of the line?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:49:01 -0500


Barbara,
I have not heard the role of step or adopted parents stated more perfectly.

Gary M. Smith


"This is a subject about which I have strong feelings, having raised my
three
step-children and having a husband who is the most active grandfather in the
lives of grandchildren who do not carry his genes. (By the way, we are on
good terms with both our exes and their current spouses.)

Identify it as an adoption and research either line or both. None of us
spring from the womb with our education, socialization, ethics, and values
developed. The "family of nurture" guides that. When our natal family and
our nurturing family are not the same--or when we have both--we need not
exclude either of them.

Some lineage societies do require a blood line. Those of us who strive to
know the whole person in the context of his real-world experience only limit
ourselves to that if we need a kidney transplant! "

Barbara Brixey Wylie




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