I hear people say often, that if a child must be placed for adoption or raised by someone other then their biological parents, then it's always best for a family member (aunt & uncle, grandparents, cousin) to adopt the child then a non-related couple. I wonder though, if your relatives are very different then your parents, not really in the best situation to raise a child, and "taking the child in" mainly out of family obligation, is it still better then having friends of the parents, or another adoptive coupe who really want to raise the child adopt them? For example, if my mom's brother and his wife adopted me, she would not be genetically related to me in anyway, and while I am related to my uncle, he is not close with my mom, and I don't think I would have ever been treated as their child, and may have been seen as a burden.
Has anyone been adopted/ raised by a family member? Do you think it was better then if you had been adopted by someone outside your family?
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