Adoptions

When I think about the A word two really bad ones come to mind while one really good one is never spoken of. That word is Adoption -oh dear, I said it.

I don’t get why this society does not promote adoption more in young mothers and women who simply cannot afford another child. Plenty of people are willing to speak out about how the other A word should be illegal but even those folks don’t promote adoption as an option. In the past, adoption was some pretty shadey business. Babies being taken away from their mothers and never knowing who their biological parents were. Now days, the tables have turned and there are many more rights for the biological parents and children to be able to contact each other after a given age. Open adoption is now very accepted throughout the adoption community and healthier relationships are formed by it.

So why the big fuss? Why is it still taboo to talk about adoption?