BastardGrannyAnnie
President George W. Bush has once again declared November as National Adoption Month. He calls upon all Americans to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities to honor adoptive families and to participate in efforts to find permanent homes for waiting children.
I think that finding homes for children who need them is the very essence of adoption. It’s a process that goes on all year long. It doesn’t need a special month.
I’m sick and tired of National Adoption Month because every year since it’s been in existence it’s focuses on little homeless baby adoptees going to wonderful forever famines, which is good. What is not good is that not once has anyone expressed an interest in following these children of adoptees into adulthood. Not once has anyone bothered to inquire about the rights of adopted adults. I’m naive and each year I would wrote lots of letters and articles trying to use National Adoption Month as a segue to the rights of adopted adults. It didn’t happen.
Next year the president should set aside a month to focus on the needs and rights of adopted adults. Then I’ll celebrate.
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Those little homeless babies have vulnerable mothers, maybe adoption awareness month could focus on adopting babies AND their mothers together.
If our president wanted to honor adoptive families, he might begin by educating himself about the history of adoption in the USA.
Just visiting your blog, learning as I go. I am an Australian Mother/Grandmother who gave up my first born daughter, then within two years had another child.
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