This Child Is Mine: by Henry Denker.

Times have gone ahead of this, and now people give birth to what is after all a child of totally another couple, or at least some variation thereof. And while no one can question the benefit of a good environment, denying ties of blood is unrealistic to say the least. After all a mutual recognition that is immediate in one or both when seeing and hearing those that are related has to do with more than environment, and people inherit a great deal that does not change with adoption or living elsewhere.

It is interesting to recall the documentary on one information channel, Discovery or National Geographic or some such one, where they showed a spinner dolphin brought up since babyhood amongst bottle nosed dolphins in nature with no human intervention - and while other dolphins around this one jumped clear, this one spinned, never having been taught to do so by example in surroundings.

Again, this is not to deny the role adoptive relatives play - and after all, every friend, every love, every marriage is an adoption outside law or within, until there are bonds of blood created by children related to both - but law, bringing up, and love do not wipe out bloodlines and the characteristics inherited thereby.

Children are not property, and love ought to be shared by all without animosity of competition or exclusion of a part by another.