You Have No Idea What You Are Talking About!
Today a friend, a public blogger , posted that adoptive parents sometimes tell her she has no idea what she is talking about. My friend is a first mother and an adoptee . .. meaning she experienced the relinquishment of her daughter, in addition to her own personal reliquishment. (Let that sink in for a moment). She was raised by adoptive parents whom she has publicly shared that she loves deeply. She is generous and kind with her hard-won wisdom, yet there are people raising adopted children who believe my friend has nothing helpful to bring to the table. I have asked myself why people would say this to her. The first answer that comes to my mind is that they resent that she now stands for family preservation. She is not out promoting adoption left and right like Evangelical Christians normally do. She is not shouting from the rooftops that babies need more adoptive parents. She is saying that babies need their own mothers. Is this really...