What are some of the Harmful Myths and Stereotypes
  • Adoptive families are not "real" families (that only families related by blood are "real" – that is, "real" sons and daughters and mothers and fathers).
  • Adopted children are troubled or damaged children.
  • Adopted children were "unwanted babies" or "unwanted children".
  • All adoptive parents adopt because they cannot have their "own" children.
  • Adoption is a second-best way to form a family and inferior to childbirth.
  • Adopted children are all "orphans".
  • When an adopted person traces his/her roots it is a rejection of their adoptive family.
  • Adopted children's birth parents abandoned them and did not care about them.
  • Some mothers adopt to avoid the difficulty of pregnancy and childbirth.
  • Adoption is an easy and quick way to get a child.
  • Adoption is the equivalent of "buying" a child.
  • Adoption is a secret.
  • Adoptive parents will not treat their adopted children as if they are their birth children.
  • Birth parents will forget their children.
  •  Adopted children will forget their birth parents.

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