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Just for the fun of it, let’s have a little pop adoption quiz! Maybe I will do a series of them. Then again, maybe not!
This is a true and false quiz to see how much you know about adoption. Some of these may not be as simple as true or false, but here goes!
1. Adoptees can receive their original birth certificates once they reach age 21 in most states.
2. Women who place children for adoption are often not mother material anyway.
3. Adoptive mothers are not real mothers.
4. Growing up adopted is no different from the way anyone else grows up.
6. With enough love, adoptive parents can overcome all the issues that adoption might bring to their children.
7. If you remove a child from its mother at birth, no harm will come to a child.
8. Placing a child for adoption is an act of unselfish courage and love.
9. Adoptive parents make better parents because they want a child.
10.Open records will prevent adoptions as birth mothers want to remain hidden from their children.
12.Adopted children with happy lives never feel the need to search.
13.Birth parents often try to take their children back from the adoptive parents.
14.Raising adopted children is exactly like raising biological children.
15.Open adoptions are confusing for children.
16.Pregnant women are no longer pressured to place their babies for adoption like they used to be in the 60’s and 70’s.
17.People who criticize adoption are all against adoption.
18.Adoptees should be grateful that they were adopted.
19.Birth and adoptive parents are natural enemies.
20.Birth parents go on with their lives and forget about their relinquished children.
21.Closed adoptions are better for children because they make life simpler, neater and the child has only one set of parents.
Answers to follow in an upcoming blog.
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Can I take the quiz? :0)
I am guessing false for all of them. The only one that I would guess as possibly true is:
8. Placing a child for adoption is an act of unselfish courage and love.
I can’t wait to read the answers in the next post.
Re: 14. Raising adopted children is exactly like raising biological children.
This is something that many non-adoptive mothers have trouble understanding. I have had people argue with me about there being no difference. There are definitely some differences. These differences don’t make our family “better” or “worse,” just different.
The quiz was a GREAT idea!!
- Faith
Cute idea Jan, nice change of pace…. I think I will get an A on this quiz!
Thanks Faith and Coley! I have a feeling that you both probably will do well on it!
“8. Placing a child for adoption is an act of unselfish courage and love.”
Hummm. I think placing a child for adoption is an act of courage and love, but I don’t know if the word “unselfish” should really be part of that. When that word is included it almost implies that the birth mother is giving a ‘gift’ (which we discussed on one of your previous threads) However, I do think it must take tremendous courage and love to place a child. I can’t even begin to imagine how one would have the courage, but I can understand the love and wanting everything possible for my child… so I guess the love leads to courage, doesn’t it?
Lemme try the rest:
Eh, they’re all FALSE
None of those seem to be true… But 8… I don’t know… It sounds like another one of those extremes -_-
I’ll certainly be anxious to see the answers to this one as I know many of these statements are FALSE. It shocks me to know what people truly think about natural mothers. We are NOT monsters!!!