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Originally Posted by Derwood
I would agree, providing that the parent who stayed with the child didn't bad mouth the parent who left every day. If the father, for example, leaves, but the kid grows up hearing about "that bastard who abandoned us" every day, the kid won't likely recover.
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This is why I'm for closed adoptions. That is, the parent(s) should give the child to a new set of parents who take full responsibility for the child. The new parents would not (or at least, they should not) tell the child that he was abandoned; they should tell the child that his or her birth parents made a difficult choice and decided that the new parents could give him or her a better life. I'm not at all for one parent leaving another to care for a child by herself, nor am I for one parent leaving and taking the child with him or her. Both of these are selfish acts, while both parents giving up a child for adoption is a difficult and selfless act.