Title: Callous toward Adoptive Parents
Product review: As an adoptive parent, I realize that I may be a little sensitive toward the portrayal of the adoption process- a long and agonizing wait for a potential child. The adoption process and some-not all-adoption agencies have much that should be changed (bribes in foreign countries, high prices here in the States, red tape, emotional manipulation) but I was really put off by the author's presentation of pre-adoptive parents as all being disfunctional. Once again, I realize this is only a novel (and not a very well reviewed one, either) but it reveals a certain callousness about and/or unfamiliarity with the heartbreaking process of adoption. Where are the bounds of good taste today? in the cancer ward or the neonatal ICU unit? Needless to say, I didn't read very far. We sent this book and the others by this author back to Amazon.
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