Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20131203105732/@comment-24927476-20140605011759

Dan Fox wrote: Adoptive parents SHOULD love their children they adopt. I know I'm loved by my family even though I am adopted. The only 2 cases that make some adoptive parents questionable, is the one consisting of the couple that only adopted Russian children, only to abuse them according to their age, and teh Nevada woman that adopted 3 kids that she all abused as well, too. There are other bad adoptive parents. Just because one doesn't abuse a child, does not mean one is a good parent.

In addition, loving a child isn't even enough to be a good parent. Regina loved Henry, but she pushed him away and made him thhink he was delusional, and wasn't a very good mother to him. It took a lot of growing and changing for her to learn to be a good mother, and for some people, that's just not an option. Love is important, but it takes a lot more than love to be a good parent.