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Classic Comebacks to Annoying Things People Say About Adoption

Classics At the Forum Someone even said to me are you going to include that child in your will. My response is as I hope you would imagine. CMCKECHNIE The one I get a lot is, "Are you not afraid of the mom knocking on your door?". My answer is, "No, Kaylie's Bmom is welcome anytime, she is like extended family to us. And no this does not confuse her about who her parents are rather she is able to have her questions answered as she has them." TRIPP836 Looking for your REAL parents? "Why, Did they move and forget to leave a forwarding address?" BELLEINBLUE "Why, are mine a figment of my imagination?" AURORA

"A friend went with me and my newly adopted daughter to a doctor appointment. While in the waiting room, a woman was admiring my baby and asking the typical questions (age, name, etc.). When the woman left, my friend said, "I think she thought she was really yours." I was so mad that without thinking I said, "She is really mine. I paid for her!" My friend has never made another comment like that and is actually in the process of adopting herself!"