re: #74 klys

I wouldn’t wish the fate of growing up in an orphanage on anyone either. For all their distorted worldview, the child would at least have two parents, a family that can put food on the table and loves each other, and at least some education. What they can take from that and do at age 18 is up to them, but it’s a much better start.

You’re right in general, but in the case of the Duggars, I think the emotional damage to an adopted child of being the odd man out in that family would be severe.