Friday, January 19, 2007
No Wonder...
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No wonder some adoptees express feeling that they were "hatched"....
"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." ~Pearl S. Buck
How can an adopted person feel this sense of connection when he is cut off from all of his kin and his birthline?
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No wonder some adoptees express feeling that they were "hatched"....
"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." ~Pearl S. Buck
How can an adopted person feel this sense of connection when he is cut off from all of his kin and his birthline?
# posted by Senior Mom @ 12:03 PM 
