Louis and Patricia have two adopted Canine-American children, Millie and Sugar Antonelli.
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We adopted a pair of dogs as our own children. ... I ask them all the time if they are happy having human parents. My wife was adopted, human to human. I tell my children they were adopted canine to human.
It is interesting to me that no one has called him out on adoptism, too. Pet ownership =/= adopting human children, as much as you love your pets. There is something about the intersection of this and the racial/ethnicity fail that is making me very uncomfortable, like this is supposed to be some parallel to transracial adoption. Is this reading off base?
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Louis and Patricia have two adopted Canine-American children, Millie and Sugar Antonelli.
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We adopted a pair of dogs as our own children. ... I ask them all the time if they are happy having human parents. My wife was adopted, human to human. I tell my children they were adopted canine to human.
It is interesting to me that no one has called him out on adoptism, too. Pet ownership =/= adopting human children, as much as you love your pets. There is something about the intersection of this and the racial/ethnicity fail that is making me very uncomfortable, like this is supposed to be some parallel to transracial adoption. Is this reading off base?