This article is silly.<p>Adoptive children are not compared to their &#x27;classmates&#x27; who stay institutionalized, instead other children who won a genetic lottery, both literally and financially.<p>I&#x27;m an adoptive parent and have bio-children. The challenges my adoptive son has to overcome are enormous -- language, nurture, early-stage nutrition, family integration..But I bet he&#x27;s doing far better on most developmental scales than his compatriots at the orphanage we adopted him from, a place that was so limited in experiences his four year old friends didn&#x27;t know words like &#x27;cone&#x27; or &#x27;arrow&#x27;.