How about "Chosen" instead of adopted? Penny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverty Morris" <bevart@frontiernet.net> Hello, . . . By the way, I wish some one would come up with a better name than "adopted". When my children were adopted their birth parents were called "biological parents". Birth parents sounds so nice, but "adoptive" doesn't sound good to me; after all you can adopt a pet. Bev in Calif. PA native

Penny, Perfect, especially since that's how I ALWAYS described it to my chosen ones. I have always told them that they have the right to know who their birth parents are, but they DO NOT have the right to ring a doorbell and announce who they are. Some of my friends are birth parents and it was an very tough decision to make. Everyone has a different opinion about this, really don't think blood is anymore special than skin color, now is it? Again, just my personal opinion. You tend to be a bit defensive if you are a parent or a child involved in "choosing" your precious ones. I have had people tell me that they were not interested in the info on my adopted ones, cause they really don't count and are not that important. My answer is always, "well, gee, guess you get no info". I don't care what you do with the info, but don't tell me that my children, my father, are not important and that's what I hear being said. Has nothing to do with blood. These are all my opinions. Opinions are sorta like heads, everyone has one. Jan S - Orlando -------Original Message------- From: PB Delery Date: 4/4/2008 11:39:59 PM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] adoption & genealogy How about "Chosen" instead of adopted? Penny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverty Morris" <bevart@frontiernet.net> Hello, . . . By the way, I wish some one would come up with a better name than "adopted". When my children were adopted their birth parents were called "biological parents". Birth parents sounds so nice, but "adoptive" doesn't sound good to me; after all you can adopt a pet. Bev in Calif. PA native ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message