Guys, pick up a box of tissues before reading this.

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If you guys are avid Giftorcurse fans, you may have noticed that I have a grudge against adoption for some strange reason. Elaboration: I'm actually quite ambivalent about it. Is it right to lie to your kids, tell them they're your own, and then crush them by telling them the truth? A lot of folks adopt for the wrong reasons, like to have a sex slave or get away from the taxes or simply because they want to be loved by someone.

Love.
That is the big issue.
Is it bound by our genes? Is it just a chemical reaction? An instinctual drive? I could go on. I guess the question of this project I had in mind is: "What is love?"

Our protagonist, a boy who I will call Abbey for the moment, is an adoptee in a funk. He doesn't know what's real anymore. He's clockwork, going through the motions at a snail's pace. He and his "father" aren't getting along well, not since "Mom" died. Abbey hates himself for his adoptive status, makes him feel intagible. He doesn't exist. His name isn't his own. He feels like someone else's fictional creation (metafiction FTW). One day, he discovers he's a Clockwalker, able to travel through time at will. He comes across his birthmother. Abbey soon becomes torn. Who is more important? "Dad" or the one who left him behind?

I know, it's schmaltzy, predictable, and what have you, but it can be improved. I like visualizing my ideas as though they were films. The climax has Abbey, having returned to the present, standing on the sidewalk near the road in front of his house. Leaves are blowing. He has a choice: he can leave or stay.

Thought this could be on the soundtrack.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGA_rZxIV0[/youtube]

I was adopted, it was never a big deal to me growing up. My adoptive parents were always truthful about it. I was far better off with them than with my birthmother who pretty much abandoned me at a foster home. I'm reading a book about it and some kids seem to have an issue with it, even those with healthy adoptive environments, but it never mattered to me.

I have adopted relatives. They are MY cousins. Each of their parents have said that the kids were theirs, even if they were adopted.

There is nothing wrong with adoption, or even with informing that child that he or she was adopted. It all depends on how it was handled.

It seems obvious that adoption is not an option for you, but many millions of families have benefitted by adoption.