Joint Council for International Adoption (http://betheanswerforchildren.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/we-are-the-truth-a-call-to-action/), which is a member based advocacy organization for adoption agencies and adopting parents has asked everyone touched by adoption to write a positive story in their blog on Thursday, April 15, 2010. This is in response to the negative press international adoption has been receiving lately.
Our adoption is hardly complete, so I won’t speak for us. I will however, talk about all the caring parents I have met through our agency, and about their adoptions. If you look to the left of this blog, there are links to other adoption blogs. Three of the four listed involve families with children already at home. The parents all made a conscious decision to adopt a child from another country, and while there were unique challenges, you can just see in the pictures that they are very happy families, with well adjusted children. I have learned so much by reading their blogs. If you haven’t checked them out, you should.
If you have been touched by someone who adopted, or who is adopted (i.e. child(ren) is already home) please either comment here, or post something about it as your status on Facebook or Twitter, or whatever social networking sites you use. We have to get the word out that for every negative story about adoption (international or domestic), there are millions of positive uplifting stores (international or domestic).
Thanks!