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Calling (First) Mothers in Fully Open Adoptions

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Aug 082007

An adoptive mom (domestic OA) is working on a unique article for Redbook that features the many aspects of adoption. She’s convinced her editor that the first mother perspective needs to be shared. If you are a first mother in a fully open adoption, feel comfortable sharing your story and can logistically get a picture with you and your placed child (obviously, with parental consent) to run in the magazine with the article, please e-mail Gina. (For a bit more info, see this post on the forums.) I’ve been corresponding with Gina and trust that her intentions for the article are good and that it will be handled in the best possible manner!

Study Schmudy

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Feb 132007

Thanks to Dawn, I realized why the study going ’round the internet today really got under my skin. I wrote about it, fully expecting to get pissed upon or ignored. That said, let me quote Adam Pertman here as well:

Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, welcomed the study’s findings, but cautioned against possibly exaggerated interpretations of it.

“It’s an affirmation that there are all sorts of families that are good for kids,” he said. “Adoptive parents aren’t less good or better. They just bring different benefits to the table. In terms of how families are formed, it should be a level playing field.”

So don’t try to tell me that you’re better than me. Or worse. Don’t try to tell me that J and D are better parents for the Munchkin simply because they adopted. Or worse. We’re all trying to make it through this journey called parenthood with happy adults (read: our grown children, happy) on the other end of the road.

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