Even though I know why they ask, it still bugs me somehow.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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About Me
- Karen
- My husband and I started trying to conceive our first child in July 2005. Too many months to count, 5 birthdays, 5 IUI's, 2 IVFs, 2 IVFs converted to IUI, and less one ovary later, we stopped searching for one good egg. We decided parenting was more important to us than pregnancy. We adopted our son from foster care in 2010.
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I know! I blogged about this too! Unreal!! It really bugged me!
So funny - that is the first thing I noticed and it bothered me instantly. I understand it is useful for some reason but I wondered if I was the only person in the world that was momentarily annoyed by it.
Same here!!!!! I wondered the same thing!
That bugged me too. Why does there have to be a distinction? A son is a son! Glad I'm not the only one.
I hope it is for the adoption tax credit because I see no other relevance for that question. I would be irked too.
I felt exactly the same way.
just so you know, this will never not bug you! my dh is 31, was adopted @ 9wks by his parents, and my mil (who lives with us) got her panties all in a knot when she saw that!!!
I know!!! I'm so glad someone wrote about this. I was so tempted to just say he is my son, period. However, I like knowing how many thousands of other kids share that with him so I just checked the box I was supposed to.
I totally understand why this bugs you but remember, it only has THAT kind of meaning if you let it. This is just Census information - there is no judgement attached.
AMEN! I actually posted about this on my blog two Fridays ago.
There are a slew of other agencies that gather this data so I don't buy their excuse for needing it on the census. It hurt.
Besides, considering both her father and I are listed as WHITE and she as Chinese it should be obvious. Though it wouldn't be the case for all families expanded by adoption.
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