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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I base it on personal experience... my cousin adopted a chinese baby... I've met some of her friends who did the same... Many, not all, had a very smug, I'm doing the right thing, vibe about them.
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Ahhhh. You aren't talking about Asian adoption - you are talking about adoption in general. Well, THAT i'd buy.
That smugness is something that cuts across all adoptive dynamics; foreign/US, healthy/sick, asian/african american/eastern european/etc, infant/older, etc. I've certainly seen it from particpants in every program I've worked with.
For what it's worth, I've always felt that it matches up exactly with the smugness that a percentage of genetic parents have. I think it's just part of the human condition - not a function of adoption. Some people are smug about anything.