My perception of time has been thrown completely out of whack. It suddenly dawned on me that I'm at the end of yet another semester. It feels strange, perhaps especially since I only followed one class this spring. I sit here with a feeling that I should have done so much more. I should be out there actively exposing myself to try and figure out
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Amen to that.
I think openness regarding sperm donor or adopting is important, a positive kind of openness, of course, needless to say. Children are quick to catch on, really. I remember when a friend and I were adventuring about in her home and found a paper that said that she was adopted. She was really shocked and fell out with her parents for quite a while, I believe. She was pretty old too, and I just felt... So bad for her. In such situations, I do think that it is good to have the truth instead of it being dropped as a bomb when you're already going through your own teenage hormonal hell.
And every child having a basic human right to a father, bah. Things don't work out that way. Fathers (and mothers) can become absent for a great many deals: they don't have any parental interest, they leave, they don't get along with the other parent, they can't provide for the child, they die. We don't have a right to have parents, so to speak. Besides, who am I going to sue/blame for my father dying in a freak accident? Because if we follow her logic, I have that right. Bleh. What a woman.
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