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Do adoptees get a "fair-share" from their adoptive parents?
I found a very interesting piece written about the trust-funds offered to 3 natural children and 1 adopted child. [The parents? John and Cindi McCain.] It seems not all children are equal in terms of parental entitlement, and I'd like to know why the adopted child is given less.
Company records show that as of January 1996 James Hensley controlled through a trust 2,110 shares of stock, of which at least 1,655 shares were voting stock. Cindy McCain owned the largest block of stock with 7,436 shares, but only 177 shares were voting.
Her three children, John, James and Meghan, each had 1,370 shares -- including 336 voting shares each -- held in trust. An adopted child, Bridget, had 600 non-voting shares.
Had Bridget been the biologic-birthed child of John and Cindi, would her trust-fund have been equal to the other 3 McCain siblings?
With so much Cindi McCain family-money to go around, why does the adoptee get to be the (less-than-half ) Black Sheep of the family?
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The Black Sheep
I started out writing a comment here, but it turned out such a lengthy piece I decided to turn it into a blog post.
That's quite a disturbing piece!
I find it very ironic that a woman from such family wealth sees herself entitled to so much, when the child she "wanted" is enitiled to far less than the rest of "her family".
Seems to me, so many adoption cases are not at all about selfless acts, as much as they reveal the true nature of selfish people.
Entitlement
Oh I completely agree. I see the McCain adoption, and many more of those high profile adoption as a matter of fact, as nothing more than self-promotion or even worse an immediate response to a sense of entitlement that needs to be fulfilled immediately. Being on 15 Percocets and Vicodins per day it is highly questionable Cindy McCain was actually capable of thinking, let alone about the interest of the girls involved.
I guess Cindy McCain is just another poor little rich girl, grown up an only child in a millionaires family, who always got what she wanted. Whether it is a child, the drugs, the husband, the power, the money, it seems she gets her way. Let's hope her entitlement to the throne will not work out; it would be a disaster if America had a first lady's whose main topic of self-promotion is expediting adoption.
Real child, real parent
Adoption world doesn't like the expression "real parents". Sometime, it's impossible to say which parents consider their adopted child as their "real" child until you see their will. I read a book, recently published, written by an adoptee whose adoptive parents were great. But I wasn't surprised to read at the 2/3rd of the book that her adoptive mother hadn't left small trinkets to her. She had a "real" (biological) son who deserved to inherit everything and her two (adoptive) daughters didn't deserve anything of hers.
My adoptive father often said he loved me but when I was about 19 years old, I read his will which stated that if his wife doesn't survive him, then everything goes to his five (real biological) children. It didn't even mention me, his adoptive daughter, not even for a penny.
What are the chances...
we "legally relinquished children" are named within the wills of our first-parents, too/either?
Oh, that's right, ALL adoptees, come from poor, abusive families who own nothing but bad names and reputations.
I suppose ANY adoptee mentioned in a parent's will should feel grateful... after all, isn't that "last request" the ultimate/final sign of parental approval and reward for a child's "good behavior"?
I was in the will
but i think it was guilt money
and i ended up blowing half of it due to my crisis and then most of the rest of it on therapy.
so that's ironic and i guess that makes us square now: neither of us owes either a damned thing.