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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Step children and MAILMEN and Philosophic Musings
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 17:52:37 -0400


Roland Achee wrote:

> This situation has slightly bugged me for many years (in preparation for
> putting together a family book), and I am still debating how I would go
> about this. The argument that is winning at this point is that I would want
> my book to be as accurate as possible, and stating the truth is of the
> utmost importance. That said, neither would I want to leave out adopted
> children who are loved and cared for by all the people in my book.

Assuming the fact of the adoption isn't a secret whose disclosure will cause hurt feelings (in which case you have a whole other issue to deal with) why wouldn't one just list the adopted child, making it very clear that child was adopted? There are a number of possible ways to do this, depending on how much, if anything, you want to say about the birth parents. While TMG offers some ways to do this in reports, if you are preparing "the book" you can edit the wording to refine the wording to best fit the family situation.

Terry Reigel

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