New thread: since there are so many adoptees here have you ever tried to buy life insurance??? I did that for the first time recently and the life insurance company COULD NOT grasp the concept of my lack of family medical history. They actually decided my parents were dead to the point of even declaring a cause of…

I guess we can agree to disagree on that one. It’s just genetics. I would honestly find it incredibly thoughtless and ungrateful for everything my dad did for me (he did not need to take on the child of a girl he fell for in college) to act like I was missing something by not knowing my sperm donor.

YOU are his or her “real” mom. Period. My advice is that if your child ever asks you really ought to advise them to think it through and wait until they are old enough to grasp what they’re doing before attempting it. My parents were always 100% honest with me and they always told me it’d be OK if I really wanted to…