2008/06/20 @ 16:25 EDT
I'm The Kidlet's Mom | I'm a Blogger | I'm an Adoptive Parent | I'm writing 365 Posts in Oh-Eight
Tags: adopt, adoption, adoption viewpoints, adoptive parent, adoptive parenting, biological parent, ethical adoption, international adoption, parents, unethical, unethical adoption
When we adopted my son (2000) there was a fairly common (but maybe somewhat unknown?) practice of giving an internationally adopted child a “new” birth date to more suitably match his/her retarded physical/social/emotional development caused by years of institutionalization.
Sometimes a kid would end up (on paper) a whole year or 18 months YOUNGER than he/she actually was.
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2008/06/04 @ 22:58 EDT
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Tags: admitting something, adopt, adopting, adoption, adoptive parenting, ashamed, blog contest, blog meme, contest, embarrassing moment, shame, The Kidlet, Ukraine
She Just Had to Say It is having a contest, so here I am - admitting to you - one of the moments in my life for which I am eternally embarrassed.
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2008/05/28 @ 13:34 EDT
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Tags: adopt, adopted, adopting, adoption, adoption viewpoints, adoptive parent, anti-adoption, aworldofadoption, biological child, biological parent, closed adoption, ethical adoption, fertility, first mother, infertility, international adoption, natural child, natural parent, open adoption, The Kidlet, unethical adoption
Another adoptive parent blogger wrote about her son’s adoption not being ’second best’ compared to having a biological child, and it got me thinking about my son’s adoption.
The fact that my FIRST choice in “how to become a parent” was to adopt (totally bypassing the very idea of doing it the ‘natural’ way) is an abstract concept that is often misunderstood…
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2008/05/08 @ 21:26 EDT
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Tags: adopt, adopting, adoption, angry, bad birthmother, Birthmother's Day, celebrating, celebration, ethical adoption, holidays, mom, mother, Mother's Day, mothers, reality, rejection, special days, The Kidlet
As an adoptive mother, I/we don’t celebrate “Birthmother’s Day”…
… I believe in celebrating my son’s First Mother on the same day that we celebrate my motherhood - on “regular” Mother’s Day.
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If I can stop laughing for just one itty bitty second to write this blog post, then I promise I’ll have a point*. In the meantime - I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the worth (or time and energy) in getting angry about a reference to adoption in a McDonald’s fast food commercial. Seriously.
Letter writing campaigns? Boycotting your kid’s favorite place to eat? All because of a WORD?
Google “mcdonald adoption commercial” and you will get a plethora of anger about one tiny adoption reference. Instead of falling prey to all this stupidity, here’s my take:
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