[ SECRET POST #2446 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2446 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]




















04. [WARNING for gore, blood, etc]

[How To Train Your Dragon]


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05. [WARNING for child abuse]



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06. [WARNING for rape]



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[Fall Out Boy's "The Phoenix"]


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09. [WARNING for underage]

[pokemon conquest]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just because you place a child up for adoption doesn't mean you don't love them.

[deaalmon]

Amen.

[(Anonymous)]

No. But you also aren't their parent anymore. You don't get to waltz back into their lives, claim you're their parent just because of biology, and get custody again.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

This!

Love doesn't matter, hell if it did a hundred crack-moms would be undoing their own adoptions every time they manage to get clean. Just because you say you love a kid, which Emma didn't until the latter third of the first season, doesn't give you a right to them. Applies to both of Henry's moms in this series. The "love isn't enough" is also Rum[coughcoughcough]skin's whole story arc with his son. You'd think the writers would have noticed they have two incompatible themes there.

[forgottenjester]

Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you.

I still love my kid, but I willingly gave him up because I wasn't ready to be a parent. I have no stand on getting custody back; I signed that away and I legally understand that there's no way I can get him back.

It hurts. A lot. And there are days where I want to take him back. But he's happy, he's with a great family, and it actually does feel good to see a family happy having him in their lives.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, okay, except if I recall correctly, that isn't what happened. I watched most of the first season, but then got tired of it, but Emma didn't seem to have any intention of ever finding out what happened to her kid. Henry tracked her down, not the other way around. I don't think biology trumps legal adoption, but I can't imagine why Emma caring about what happened to Henry (who, to the real world, would have seemed like a troubled child) would be a problem.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if the adoptive parent is abusive and the biological parent is stable and able to provide a loving home, then I'd say that there's a very strong moral case for the biological parent being the 'real' parent. After all, if a biological parent is abusive, and a child is given a loving, stable foster/adoptive parent then its perfectly understandable (and indeed highly desirable) that they might start to regard the non-bio parent as their 'real' mother or father.

In the real world people who have been abused, neglected, or otherwise treated poorly by adoptive parents often view finding their biological mother as a way of getting the loving parental relationship they've been denied (which may cause a great deal of heartache in cases where the biological mother simply isn't able to provide this). Children who've experienced the same at the hands of their biological parents may come to regard a grandparent, sibling, aunt or uncle as their 'real' parental figure.

Essentially I'm a firm believer that parents, biological or otherwise, only have the right to consider themselves as such as long as they fulfil their parental duty. If they don't then they have no right to complain if the child casts them off in favour of somebody who will.

[forgottenjester]

And your love does not make you their "real" parent. Love has nothing to do with this.