[Travis McGee]

I know several adopted kids. They are told the truth. Your mom just wasn’t capable of raising you for this or that reason. So we became your parents, because we could give you all the love. It works out well, in the cases I know of.

But there’s something creepy about “mommy just wanted a baby, so she bought some anonymous sperm.”

[Ditter]

We adopted 3 infants so I know a little bit about adoption too. Our adoptions took place in ‘63 ‘66 and ‘72. Nothing was known about the birth parents. Of course we told our children they were adopted but we had nothing more to tell them. I have asked if they were troubled by that and other than an occasional curious though I don't think they are distressed by it, as these girls in the article. I hope not anyway. When our daughter was a teen ager she saw a program on TV about adoption and was upset, I told her if she waited until she was an adult I would help her look for her birth parents, she never asked again.