# I Pit damuriajashi and DemonTree

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-damuriajashi-and-demontree/928300 "2020-12-18T00:49:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-damuriajashi-and-demontree/928300/87 "2021-01-22T02:15:31Z")

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Here is the original thread if you’re looking for a good time.

> [@Adoption: Why say Mom and Dad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adoption-why-say-mom-and-dad/525506):
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> This is a question I have always had about people that adopt children who are not in anyway related to them, but whenever I try to ask it, I get hysterics. Why is it necessary to maintain the fiction that the adopters gave birth to the children by raising them to call their adopters mother and father (or other parental names)? It never made sense to me, if adoption is such a good and noble thing, that the relationship between the child and caregiver had to be hidden. It also seemed rather ins…

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