Responses | Family Values Put to the Test

Thank you for this and many other thought provoking essays.

Bottom-line, as you mentioned in your essay, there are many small to big conflicts between biological parents and their children as well as foster and adoptive parents and their children - from playing/not playing sports,  going to college or not vs a vocational school or no school to political/social beliefs and acting on any belief or feeling including a drive for transgender LGBTQ. (I always told my two adopted kids that they could do whatever they wanted to do as long as they did not hurt themselves or anyone else - physically or emotionally.

Altho I do not believe the same as the parents you describe, I very much respect their rights to hold these values. And, I hope that these parents and any adoptive children can "work to out".

On the otherhand, if they cannot,  would this be emotional child abuse and would the child need to be removed for its own health?

Kind regards, 

GR