Not all adopted children are victims of cheating - NRC

Disconcerted I read the articles and the Commentary ( In case of intercountry adoption, all supervision and control failed, 11/2) on the report of the Joustra Committee on intercountry adoption. The one-sided negative conclusions would almost make you, as an adoptee, doubt the legitimacy of your existence in the Netherlands. As if you really shouldn't have been here retroactively. As if all adopted children have been 'channeled away' to the Netherlands through deception, lies, deception and forgeries. Although life as an adoptee will always remain overshadowed by questions about identity and biological origin, there is still mainly gratitude for a dignified existence in a free, prosperous Netherlands and for having escaped social exclusion, poverty or war. It seems as if this sound should not be interpreted in this debate. Incidentally, many children were abandoned or the child was consciously renounced because of poverty or because of illegitimate birth. My Urk parents told me after my probing questions that shortly after my birth I was abandoned on the sidewalk of an orphanage in Isfahan (then Persia). You miss the bottom of your existence, but my Dutch parents are not to blame for that. By throwing everything into one negative heap, I feel like an adopted child and their sincere motives and care are done great injustice. My biological parents would also have given me up if my adoptive parents had not adopted me. My Urk parents told me after my probing questions that shortly after my birth I was abandoned on the sidewalk of an orphanage in Isfahan (then Persia). You miss the bottom of your existence, but my Dutch parents are not to blame for that. By throwing everything into one negative heap, I feel put away as an adopted child and their sincere motives and care are done great injustice. My biological parents would also have given me up if my adoptive parents had not adopted me. My Urk parents told me after my probing questions that shortly after my birth I was abandoned on the sidewalk of an orphanage in Isfahan (then Persia). You miss the bottom of your existence, but my Dutch parents are not to blame for that. By throwing everything into one negative heap, I feel put away as an adopted child and their sincere motives and care are done great injustice. My biological parents would also have given me up if my adoptive parents had not adopted me.

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