Does it make me a bad person that one of my first sort of automatic reactions was "you know 'Brian's perspective would make for a great protagonist in a novel"?
I suspect if LW's mother were the egg-donor/carrying the twins he might feel a slightly different kind of conflicted, and that he's honing in on the fact that (GASP) it's just this woman his mother's with who's having a baby with some random guy's sperm and his mother expects him to be FAMILY with these brats!
Which is why I strongly, strongly suspect this is rooted in discomfort with his parents' divorce, discomfort with his mother's sexuality and remarriage, etc, because somehow I don't think he'd be writing this letter if his mother were adopting a child. (If nothing else, because I think everyone KNOWS what the "general" reaction to that would be, ie: you are a horrible person what is wrong with you.)
(Not that people don't FEEL or BEHAVE in bad ways to adopted children, but it's not the kind of thing it's acceptable to SAY in this context.)
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I suspect if LW's mother were the egg-donor/carrying the twins he might feel a slightly different kind of conflicted, and that he's honing in on the fact that (GASP) it's just this woman his mother's with who's having a baby with some random guy's sperm and his mother expects him to be FAMILY with these brats!
Which is why I strongly, strongly suspect this is rooted in discomfort with his parents' divorce, discomfort with his mother's sexuality and remarriage, etc, because somehow I don't think he'd be writing this letter if his mother were adopting a child. (If nothing else, because I think everyone KNOWS what the "general" reaction to that would be, ie: you are a horrible person what is wrong with you.)
(Not that people don't FEEL or BEHAVE in bad ways to adopted children, but it's not the kind of thing it's acceptable to SAY in this context.)