The adoption industry peddles perfect product placement called babies to people who miscarried, some desperate to raise a child. Do they tell them babies are “blank slates” who will love them unconditionally? Yes. That does happen.
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
What has and has not happened… #NAAM2019
The adoption industry peddles perfect product placement called babies to people who miscarried, some desperate to raise a child. Do they tell them babies are “blank slates” who will love them unconditionally? Yes. That does happen.
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The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
That's the difficult part but there is a person deep inside you that exists without pain. A person who you can identify with. A person who can express emotions and love despite what has happened. These circumstances are limiting. I never had my own children after living through a difficult adoption and after having every child hood dream smashed into pieces I stopped fighting and blaming and believe that nothing and no one can repair some of the damage. But life exists and to have held my own child in my arms would have been rewarding and satisfying. The out come is an echo
ReplyDeleteOf both my birth mother and adopted mother's circumstances. Both are responsible for not seeing the child. Sometimes there is time to catch the child before she or he falls into the trap. There was no need for this to have happened. My parents were together and perfectly happy when me and my twin were born but the state decided to remove us. I also lost my twin and love him more than anything in this world. Perhaps we get a second chance in another life to feel everything we missed. Perhaps the wicked will be punished. Learning right from wrong to help support life in a good way. My dear is that the contribution I could have made to this world will be like my parents, sadly missed. Many of my friends who are mother's look for my little one and there is no one there. The empty place at the table and perhaps they will understand their own arrogance and misfortune for not helping me to survive. I will not be there in the future, no little Kitty. I am a great friend and perhaps these people are not the kind of people I want my kids to grow up around. This also did not work out well for me.