Originally posted by d000hg
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<cynical>they're going to be staring at her for 18 hours a day for the 12-18 months she's a baby, don't reckon they'll want to watch repeats 
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</cynical>THIS is cynical (with apologies to jmo21 in advance):
Originally posted by jmo21
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BTW, random philosophical tangent: I believe that any person who brings up a child with care and love is the child's parent; love is thicker than blood.
A school friend was all upset one day (when we were about 14) and admitted he was adopted as a baby. It all poured out and, essentially, he felt worthless because he had "no real family". I said he was a lucky bastard: "It's alright for you. You were chosen. I just got lumbered with my family." That cheered him up.
My Dad had to make a confession last year because two of my siblings have been working on researching their family tree for about a decade and all pleased with themselves for the progress they have made. A few months after my Mum died, he said "Of course, the person I called Mum wasn't my mother". (That was his mother he was talking about, not mine.) When he had told his parents he intended to get married, his 'mother' burst into tears and confessed she wasn't the woman on his birth certificate.
At this point I said to him "But if she brought you up so you were none the wiser, then surely she was your real mum, as far as you were concerned."
He looked at me quizzically and then said: "That's exactly what I said to her".
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