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"I wish I'd never met Mum and Dad" is a reasonably interesting article in the Daily Mail about adopted children who find that their birth parents, when they finally meet them, aren't what they were hoping for. One women, called Sophie, does seem to have had a bit of a nightmare given she didn't actually want to meet her birth parents. However on her 18th birthday her real mother decided to get in touch (I think that is the first legally allowed age). Unfortunately the story then descends into class-related disaster, as Sophie, who is into horse-riding and "living a very different - and much more privileged - life" takes issue with her "scruffy & thick-set" father, whose "accent sounded a bit common" and who lived in a small council terrace. It gets worse when she is persuaded to visit the family house on the council estate , as her father starts ringing around the extended family of cousins, brothers, step-sisters etc who all descend on mass.Apparently, at least according to the Daily Mail, class is often a factor in such relationships, as the parents who give up their children for adoption are often less middle-class than the adopters.
Labels: England
posted by Matthew @ 1/04/2007 09:54:00 PM
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