It's stories like this that just make me throw my hands up in the air and roll my eyes all dramatic like. At any rate, a father in North Carolina is ticked off at the game Portal 2 after Wheatley and GLaDOS make "upsetting" remarks about adopted children.
It's a game. First off, the news station reporting this are just as bad as any other news organization out there that enjoys making a mountain out of a molehill, especially when it comes to games. Perhaps the family should have had a talk with their daughter already about her being adopted. She's old enough to play a videogame like Portal 2, so you would think she was old enough to handle the obvious news she was adopted and that it doesn't really matter since she's obviously now in a loving home. But nooooo... I'm going to stop here before I go off on any more of a rant.
Oh, and the full article is at the above URL on the right in the tiny video window. Watch it. Just, watch it. Go on.
Imagine you're playing a video game with your child when you realize the game is taunting one of the characters who's adopted.
Not a big deal, right? Now imagine your child is adopted.
What do you say? How do you handle it?
It happened to one local father and his 10 year old adopted daughter.
Now he and his wife say playing the game, billed as educational and appropriate for anyone older than 10, has forced them to have the most important conversation an adoptive parent will ever have: talking about the birth parents.
Not a big deal, right? Now imagine your child is adopted.
What do you say? How do you handle it?
It happened to one local father and his 10 year old adopted daughter.
Now he and his wife say playing the game, billed as educational and appropriate for anyone older than 10, has forced them to have the most important conversation an adoptive parent will ever have: talking about the birth parents.
It's a game. First off, the news station reporting this are just as bad as any other news organization out there that enjoys making a mountain out of a molehill, especially when it comes to games. Perhaps the family should have had a talk with their daughter already about her being adopted. She's old enough to play a videogame like Portal 2, so you would think she was old enough to handle the obvious news she was adopted and that it doesn't really matter since she's obviously now in a loving home. But nooooo... I'm going to stop here before I go off on any more of a rant.
Oh, and the full article is at the above URL on the right in the tiny video window. Watch it. Just, watch it. Go on.
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