July 13, 2015

Adoption News Roundup

Here’s a look at some of the news and articles that have caught our eye recently!

In Korea, adoptees fight to change the culture that sent them oversees. “In the years after the Korean War, more than 160,000 Korean children — the population of a midsize American city — were sent to adoptive homes in the West. What began as a way to quietly remove mixed-race children who had been fathered by American servicemen soon gained momentum as children crowded the country’s orphanages amid grinding postwar poverty. Between 1980 and 1989 alone, more than 65,000 Korean children were sent overseas.”

5 birth mothers share the stories of their open adoptions.

Can you believe it? YouTube brought together these identical twins adopted to separate families at birth.

Cutting your child’s screen time has to start somewhere…

This adoptive mother writes poignantly about the pains of infertility, and how the comments of others add to that pain. She writes about things that have been said to her that you may have heard, too: “oh now you don’t have to deal with all the painful parts of pregnancy.” Or, “I bet you’ll get pregnant now because you won’t be thinking about it.” Oh, so that’s where infertility comes from??

Love these cleaning and organizing tips from Parents magazine!

Dads seeing their babies for the first time…this is going to melt your heart.

This woman, who has struggled with infertility, writes a letter to a pregnant friend about why she won’t be attending her baby shower. Thoughts?

What happens when the role of mother is over-glorified? “As many people have observed, current culture seems to demand that mothers be all in, all the time – especially when it comes to school work, extracurricular activities, and domestic duties. And although I suspect that some of these demands may actually be internal pressures that we mothers put on ourselves – stresses that could be minimized with an attitude of “good enough” here and there – I also can’t help but notice that along with this “all in” mommy problem, there is a countervailing tendency to glorify the role of Mommy, which, in a roundabout way, expects mothers to be “all in” emotionally as well.”