In the Christian Adoption blog, Laura Christianson wrote an interesting post about the reasons that people choose to adopt. She said that everyone who considers adopting wrestles with the question, “What are my motives for adopting?” You know, I don’t think I ever once asked myself that question. Perhaps this is because I already knew the answer.

For me, adoption was about bringing a child into my family to love.... more

Here's part 1 of this post.

Here's where I'm coming from: although there are really bad statistical records on adoption, it seems clear (through the last real statistical study, which was done in 1992) that many, many adopted children in this country are not adopted through domestic, private adoption where the birth mother chose a family for her child, coerced or no. Many, possibly the majority, of adoptions in this country happen because really rotten things happen to children who shouldn't... more

Dr. G just wrote a long post (part 1 and part 2) about how she hates adoption. And although she said not to guess at her motivation I'm going to analyze her nonetheless: 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. If you write about adoption publically, like we do on the blogs, you get criticized - sometimes by readers and sometimes by fellow bloggers. And although many times commenters are kind... more

The title of this blog entry refers as much to me as to you, my wonderful readers. For I have inherited this blog with no real plan as to how to proceed. My other blog, Adopt from Russia, seems to have a certain structure to it. After all, I've been through it. But this blog? No structure. No plan. Just some hope and a computer screen.

Yesterday I wrote about how my family came to adoption. Now I want to write about you. I'm going to make some assumptions about you, many of which I know won't fit everyone, but many of which will... more