When people react viscerally to rehoming pets, I remind them that this is something that also happens with children.
-They have another mother or another set of parents.
-Their first parents couldn’t care for them
(Though this is rarely presented as “didn’t want,” children are perfectly capable of...
-Their adoptive parents “chose” them.
-In homes where families deal with financial challenges and children are exposed to the resulting arguments and tensions, it is very easy for them...
More recent scholarship (Kim Park Nelson, Tina Patel, Margaret Homans, et al.) explores how the psychology of adoption plays out for adoptees in adulthood, including…