February 24, 2016

Adoption News Roundup

Happy Thursday! We’re almost to the weekend, and that is a very good feeling :).

Here are the links that have caught our eye this week…feel free to bookmark for Saturday morning coffee time…

Should you let your child Google their birth parents? “An hour or so earlier, we’d been eating dinner. My daughter was using her fork to carefully separate the foods on her plate so that they didn’t touch. Suddenly she looked up and asked, ‘Can I Google my birth parents?'”

Love these sweet, creative adoption announcements!

Thanks to Adoptive Families for this very informative post, where they answered readers’s most common questions about the role of birth families in the adoption process.

“We’re not perfect. That’s why we’ll make perfect parents.” “When you’re not trying to be perfect, it’s also okay to say ‘This is uncomfortable’ or ‘I was so nervous when you called!’ We would much rather be chosen to parent because of who we really are, than because we pretended to be something we’re not.”

This teacher adopted a child who had been rejected many times over because she doesn’t have a nose. The photos of them together will melt your heart — so much love! “She had been abandoned in a bush at birth and insects or animals had eaten away her nose. Apparently the police found her clinging to life and took her to a nearby clinic in Kutch, in Gujarat, western India. Chances of her survival were slim, but she fought on. Eventually she made a full recovery and she started her life in an orphanage. But there was no funding or money available for treatment to her nose. Durga had spent all her life with no nose.”

A little humility on the adoption journey never hurt. “Be selfless, but not timid. Think about everyone else involved in the adoption before you think about your own needs. How can you help ease the pain for the birth parents? How can you support your spouse and family members throughout this journey? How can you educate the public on appropriate adoption language and vocabulary?”