Adoption

Would you adopt a child? If yes, what would the reasons be? Lately I have heard of many friends wanting to, and it's not because they do not want to have their own biological children or that they cannot, but they want to adopt kid(s) in addition to their own (biological) kid(s). Would you do this? If so, what would your motivation be? While adoption in and of itself is a great idea because it often gives abandoned children a chance for a better life, could adoption in cases where the parents also have their own biological children lead to more harm than good due to competitiveness between the adopted kid(s) and the biological kid(s)? Do you suppose that sibling rivalry in these cases could lead to bitterness and resentment that affect potentially both children's psychological and mental development?

On a related note, would your parenting of an adopted child be exactly the same as that of a biological child? Would there be any issues with parenting because of not being as intimately aware of an adopted child as you are of your own child? Since I am not a parent, at least yet, I may be clueless in some of these aspects. :)

Further, do you think there are any racial factors related to upbringing that could come in the way of effectively parenting a child of a different race? Is upbringing adaptive in a sense, so that parenting a child of one's own race is instinctively right by the process of evolution? What part of effective parenting in your opinion is instinctive and what part of it can come through educating oneself?

I would welcome your thoughts on any of the above, or related topics. Please do share what you think...

Vision

Cyber Diaries is meant to be a collection of thoughts of people from various walks of life, on various subjects. This has evolved out of my personal need to understand different ideologies and different ways of thinking, on different subjects.

There's a plethora of books with lofty thoughts of the quintessential elite. But what I hope to explore here is great ideas of "lay" people, and also interesting stories, dreams and epiphanies that you may have to share. After all, what good is a tale that you have not told the world? What good is an ideology that has not inspired a thought? What good is poetry and light that has not illuminated fellow men's consciousness?

These pages are dedicated to you. Please do share your thoughts. And please do tell people about this "club" so that they can share their thoughts as well.

I will post the first subject for discussion very soon.