Hi there,

I was in class and we got into a discussion about these people who rescued a man who was trapped underneath a burning car; the confusion was in the area of shouldn't the bystander effect have kicked in when there were so many people around?

My thoughts wandered into adoptees...sometimes I don't help because I feel in the way...if you're adopted and feel like you're not where you are supossed to be-or at the very least were rescued and that you should feel "lucky" it's really hard not to feel like a burden. Yet the flipside-sometimes I feel like I owe the world something too, I'm always taken on the hardest types of people-my friend, also adopted, rescued all the stuffed animals she knew no one would want when she was a kid;

so my question is....anyone know of any link between adoptees and helping/inability to help or altrusim? I know this is kinda braod, but just curious

Take care,
-obj