This book is below and beyond offensive. Gotcha is something you say when you catch a pesky mouse or stomp on a cockroach that been running across your kitchen floor for the past week.. It is not a term that should be used to "celebrate" adoption or the "gotten" adoptee. I understand why people would want to commemorate the day, but Gotcha is obscene.
If I could give it less than one star, I would.
Full disclosure. My adoptive parents used to commemorate the day I was placed with them. It was known as Betsy Day (that's the name I went by most of my life--nothing wrong with the name, but it's not me, and I reverted to Marley, derived from my original name, Marlene).
Betsy Day was low key-not Gotcha! I cannot imagine either of my parents (or my Mama Dot who later adopted 2 kids) using the creepy term or exhibiting Gotcha mentality.. Of course, I was adopted at a time when adoption wasn't considered an entitlement due the exburban set. Since I was placed just before Christmas I got a sort of pre-Christmas gift or two which was nice. When I got older, my mom never forgot, and I always got a check in the mail. At no time in my life did I feel like I'd been swooped up in a butterfly net, scruntched in a mouse trap, or caught by the paparazzi. . I feel very sorry for today's Class Bastard, who not only are denied their identities and OBCs, but the simple recognition of their humanity.
Gotcha Day - Adoption Porn
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