I Hate Adoption Too!

There’s this still small voice inside of me. That voice in my soul that for all my life BL (before LuLu) drove me toward adoption. It tells me that adoption was indeed the right choice for my family. And that adoption is the right choice for other families as well. And that adoption is an incredibly valuable choice for unplanned pregnancies ( vastly preferable to orphanages full of starving and abused infants). But me advocating... more

Uh oh…it’s contagious! That negative attitude…that “snit addiction” from Dr. G…it’s spreading…

Or, more accurately, as Adrienne put it, “she doesn't really hate adoption - she just hates having to think about it and write about it and worry about it all the time.” That’s me! I hate how adoption has consumed my life!

The statistics... more

I’m sorry to give John Rosemond’s opinions yet another forum, but I was chaffed by an article entitled “Adoption is no big deal” in Saturday’s issue of the Atlanta Journal–Constitution. Rosemond, a supposed “traditional parenting” expert does not believe that children who are adopted should be told they are adopted:

“until it is either necessary or they are old enough to comprehend the implications, ask intelligent questions, and participate in rational discussion.”

At what... more