"November is National Adoption Month, a month set aside each year to raise awareness about the adoption of children and youth from foster care. This year's National Adoption Month initiative targets adoption professionals by focusing on ways to recruit and retain parents for the 115,000 children and youth in foster care waiting for adoptive families."I have come to hate November. The adoption industry, adoptive parents, and the media choose to ignore that the meaning behind this month is to raise the number of children adopted out of foster care.
Instead we get to have an entire month dedicated to hearing and reading about the wonderful world of adoption. Not adoption of foster children though ~ adoption of newborn babies who have been born to parents who are deemed as less worthy than the adoptive parents. A month dedicated to celebrating the destruction of natural families, instead of preserving them. Celebrating, instead of seeing the truth about the harm done when children are not raised with their natural families. Children who lose their identity, ancestry, medical history, and more. A month that ignores the mothers who are forever changed, who spend the rest of their lives without their precious child.
I'm going to try to post every day this month ~ to do my part in spreading the truth about adoption loss. I don't know how well I will do ~ I am posting on this first day with only 38 minutes left!
I met my daughter for the first time on Sunday. It was beautiful! I know you met your son not too long ago. How is that going?
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you got to meet your daughter!! Reading your words brought me back to Oct. 9th again ~ a day I will never forget.
ReplyDeleteThings with my son are going great ~ frequent emails, keeping up on fb as before. I, of course, can't wait for an opportunity to get together again ~ with his wife & children this time!