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OK... guys.... hold on a minute...
Don't I recall people on this EXACT forum complaining and pleading that people just leave us alone about our (adopted) kids???
And now people are complaining that there isn't ENOUGH information about a politician's (adopted) daughter??
I would imagine that the McCains feel about Bridget like we do about OUR kids... that she is their daughter, regardless of how she came to them.
Each country is different, as is each situation. Why are we so stuck on HOW she was adopted??
I feel like we are providing yet another double standard:
leave me and my kids alone, but give us ALL the information about John & Cindy McCain and THEIR adoption. It isn't ANY of our business how she came to be their daughter, just like it isn't the business of the Wal-Mart cashier or the nosy stranger of how OUR children came into our families.
Let's not make this a political issue - or assume that they pulled strings to bring their daughter home. I have heard of situations where a child's life was in danger and the adoption was expedited. Perhaps this is what happened with her adoption. I don't know, but I won't allow myself to assume how this situation played out. Praise God that Mrs. McCain walked into that orphanage, saw children who needed help and did something about it!!
I KNOW that being in the political eye means that their lives will be scrutinized, but shouldn't those of us who are adoptive parents understand the most how frustrating it can be to be grilled over how their children came into their family?
Sorry to stir the pot, so to speak, but I was just reading this thread and it just reallllly started bothering me.
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