Can you love an adopted child?

I definitely do think adopted children are just as loveable as any birth child. Of course there will be times when you will be angry with them, but that happens with children who were born to you, too. I think it is usually better for adoptions to take place before you have children of your own so that the siblings will not realize the difference, or for adoptions to be done only where there are no birth children in the household. That way there will be no chance of competition. Love for children only grows stronger as you realize their need for you. Adopted children are often in desperate need.

I think there is no difference in the love i would feel for my own or an adopted child. I never ever was in love with genes. I love my niece as much as i would my own child. I think it is the closness and the belonging together that make people love their children, not genes or blood

I think that people who adopt children would love them as their own because after all why would they adopt a child if they did not have any love for it. Anyway your question about whether they would love them as their own is a bit difficult to answer. Some parents might some others would love them but maybe not to the extent of loving their own.

There is no difference in the love a parent has for their child. Wheather that child is theirs biologically or not. My dad is not my biological father but he is my dad. He loves me as if I was his own child. He raised me and gave me good values and tought me to be secure in myself. This is a man that had no children with my mom but has been married to my mom for 37 years. I am now 42 and my dad loves me just as much as he did when he first married my mom. This is my dad and I am his daughter. I have a daughter now and that is his grandchild and I feel sorry for any man that would say I am not his daughter and Heather is not his granddaughter. If you decide to adopt I am sure you will find that you have so much love to give that you can't help yourself. Sometimes I think adopted children are more special. In my case my mom did not have a choice but to be my mom. However, my dad had a choice wheather to be my dad or not. He choose to be my dad and that makes out bond strong.

When you adopted a child, you consequently gave her a right of being your child. so why not. If you dont love her why adopting her. Definitely, she is your child, and if you see her like one, the necessary bonding will flow in, it may take time in some cases though

Oh my gosh you cannot believe how much you can love an adopted child. Yes, sure it may take a longer time to bond with the child but believe me, I love my 2 adopted children more than life itself!!!!

of course i can. I could love an adopted child just as if that child was my very own. i think that if you are going to adopt a child if you feel as if you can not give them the kind of love those children so need then you should not adopt. adopt because you have so much love to give, adopt because you want a child to have a home and a loving family.

I dont think theres an excemption in choosing a person we wanted to be cared and love..Yah, if i do have an adopted child, i will assure to her that she will be cared and loved by me.. If i cant really gave birth with my own child, i will adopt one because i wanted also to extend my love as a parent to those children that never feel a love from other person..And i will love her as my own child..

Sure! why not?. it is a human being. Its all depends on your mindset so far as love is concern. As you can love someone to become your wife, in the same way you can love someone to become you child. your mind set matters most.

I have two adopted sons and a birth daughter.I love each of my children the same. There is no differences in the love I share with the children. As I tell the boys all the time yes I carried Cait in my stomach for nine months but I decided to love you as if I had carried you for nine months.Just because you aren't the one who made the child doesn't mean that you aren't capable to love them.