A reader writes;
Like many people, I found your piece on the unique quality of heterosexual marriage very thorough and moving. But I wanted to draw your attention to a perhaps unintended consequence of your words. As a birth mother whose biological daughter was adopted three years ago, I felt stung by the phrase "we...look after our own biological children (and also those abandoned by their biological parents)."
I don't think you intended your words as a slight toward those who become pregnant...
Published on August 11, 2010 17:14