Knowledge About Your Adoption Some adoptive parents share more than others for various reasons. How much of your adoptive parents’ story shared with you? If they shared details about your adoption, how did that make you feel? If they did not, do you wish they had? Did your parents share with you why they choose to adopt? Did they share that story with others in your life? If so, did it affect you in any ways?
I've mentioned before that one of the best things my parents ever did was tell me about my adoption from before I was old enough to remember and always shared everything they knew with me. Well.... almost always.
I always knew that my mother couldn't have children. She had several miscarriages after they adopted me, and I remember her being in the hospital or home sick on the couch when I was quite young. They never made me feel like adoption was a second choice or that I was the "replacement" child for the one they couldn't have on their own.
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You never asked for it again...
You see this statement used in many different areas - she doesn't talk about her birth family so she isn't interested so we don't bring it up...
People need to ask themselves who is the adult in the conversation?
Yep, similar situation here. My a-mom had info for years and was waiting for me to ask. But I thought she had no info nor any way to get info, so why would I have asked?
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