Like Parent Like not-so-much Child?

I personally could not emotionally handle watching the movie, but it is a concept worth blogging about.

Raising a child you thought was your own only to discover they aren't. I explained the movie concept to a friend and her first reaction was YOU KEEP THE ONE YOU RAISED DUH. What would you do in that situation? Thinking about it, I can understand both sides, but I think I personally would still want to keep the child I'd raised, after all I'd raised them this far, I love them and they love me as well, I'm not going to ship them back to their real parents just because they aren't my blood. I'd be willing to try it, to see if the child wants to "trial-run" their real parents or vice versa, but I think you should keep the one you've built the bond with.

I think whether or not you're biologically connected to a child, there is still the "like parent like child" factor in hand. The child might have some basic personality traits that don't match up with yours, but they're still going to be molded after you if they are raised by you regardless of blood-relation.

I find it rather ironic that while I've never experienced any drama with not being biologically related to someone, I'm not adopted nor was I accidentally switched, but ironically a lot of my stories surrounding my characters deal with just that, being family with others who aren't your family. Or friends being the family because the real family sucks, or losing your family and gaining a new one from strangers whether you lost by death or by abandonment.

It begs the question of, what really is family? Is family what your born into? Or is family those who unconditionally love and support you through thick and thin? What is more important, friends or family? Perhaps it is your friends, after all friends can sometimes be more of a family to you than your biological relatives. I am personally more connected with my family than my friends. This coming family weekend I wont be spending with friends, my parents tried to ask me what time I'd like them to leave and what time I'd like to put aside for friends this weekend and my response was "Are you kidding? It's family weekend not friend weekend." I love my family deeply, they mean more to me than anything else. If I went to a friend's party and my brothers came with I'd rather hang out around my brothers than my friends.