Those are some really great points you brought up there. I've wondered myself whether or not only families with children could adopt Imaginary Friends, or if a childless couple could do so. That had brought up a similar discussion awhile back(might have even been on the old forum) as to whether a single adult could adopt an Imaginary Friend. It seems to me that regardless of how many people are in the family, or whether there are children, there will always be the potential for abuse of the one being adopted. It also brings up the question as to whether or not any family could adopt an Imaginary Friend permanently, not just until their child got tired or him/her or got "too old". Most adoptions seem to be temporary, but I have to wonder if there would ever be families who would grow to love their adopted IF as a family member, and not every want to give them up and send them back to Foster's when the kids got "too old". Would the IF be happy in that situation, especially the ones that are really child-like, no longer having kids to play with once those in the family grew up, or would they be satisfied simply being nurtured by the adults as though they were the biological offspring? It would be ashame if a human couple really loved an Imaginary child(not just the "babies" in the nursury, but say, one that LOOKED like a human child, like the "spotted-tongue" version of Mac that Goo created), and had to give him/her back once their kids reached a certain age.
pitbulllady
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