[ReOcB42008]

Hi and welcome to forum. I am glad that your adoption experience turned out so well. You must have had wonderful, LOVING, adoptive parents to be so positive. I unfortunately had the opposite - a cruel, selfish, manipulative a-*mother" who only wanted a dolly to dress up and show off when I was a baby and then used me as a maid (had to clean 4 story house top to bottom every Saturday during school year - daily during summer break) and used me as a punching bag (physical and verbal). I do NOT believe abortion is a bad thing - from my own persoinal experience and from seeing what happens to little children who are NOT loved - I think it would be better to abort a child than have it, not loving it so that you make it's life miserable so that the child grows up not knowing how to love and the cycle usually starts all over again. I had a couple relatives who showed me some love and affection so I did not grow up to be an abuser but I struggle with self-worth issues every day due to the abuse I grew up with. I would rather have not existed at all than lived through all I have gone through and continue to struggle with! PJ