My Take On Adoption Reform

 If a young man or woman signed up to be a Marine, would they be told what to expect? You bet. Bootcamp, deployments, death of their buddies, their personal death, and PTSD. In essence, a Marine would be prepared ahead of time and given the equipment needed to win in battle.

There is another group of men and women–adoptive parents of all sizes and shapes, who’d give their very lives for their children. Some have even dreamed of adopting a child since their own childhood. They signed the dotted line for becoming an adoptive or foster parent, but the actual person or agency that signed them up, failed to educate about the realities of parenting a child from trauma, as well as provide tools for accomplishing their mission of loving their adopted child well.

It may be tempting to believe this happened only during closed adoptions of bygone eras, but I’ve found that it’s just as alive today as it was the day that my parents adopted me. 

What Adoptive Moms Say

Possible Wording for Professionals

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Thus, my advice to moms? Do your homework. My advice to professionals who hold back the truth about the child’s back story? Step up. 

This is my “take” on adoption reform.