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While traveling to Makasar, Sulawesi, I read an article by Kate Hilpern in a newspaper: Who's my dad? Jo Rose, 36 was reported to have fought for her rights to find her identity. Jo Rose was conceived by donor insemination. As a child, she did not know what that was all about but by mid-teen, she felt uncomfortable and confused about who she was and started having bulimia and depression. She also experienced grief and loss at not being related to her adopted father and thus began her long futile and painful search for her biological dad. Jo Rose felt there was injustice in her case. As she put it, while her mother's need to have a genetic link to her child was valued, her need to know, love and understand the father with whom she has a genetic link was not. Today is Human Rights Day and here, I am led to believe human rights is not just about the rights of adults alone. Children have rights too but well, whatever this is all about- this should also be about attachment which according to Buddhism, brings about suffering...What do you think?
While traveling to Makasar, Sulawesi, I read an article by Kate Hilpern in a newspaper: Who's my dad? Jo Rose, 36 was reported to have fought for her rights to find her identity. Jo Rose was conceived by donor insemination. As a child, she did not know what that was all about but by mid-teen, she felt uncomfortable and confused about who she was and started having bulimia and depression. She also experienced grief and loss at not being related to her adopted father and thus began her long futile and painful search for her biological dad. Jo Rose felt there was injustice in her case. As she put it, while her mother's need to have a genetic link to her child was valued, her need to know, love and understand the father with whom she has a genetic link was not. Today is Human Rights Day and here, I am led to believe human rights is not just about the rights of adults alone. Children have rights too but well, whatever this is all about- this should also be about attachment which according to Buddhism, brings about suffering...What do you think?
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