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Monday, August 23, 2010

Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other and other fallacies of adopting internationally

A lively debate is going on in the comments over at the NPR site over NPR weekend host Scott Simon's new book: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other. When I first got wind of the title a couple of weeks ago, I gagged. It's more of the same that we hear from adoptive parents all the time: this child was "meant" for me, totally subverting the catastrophe in someone's life that led to that child's being available to be adopted.