Words2Mother: Reflections and Diatribes

Reflections and diatribes is real time exploration of the twists and turns of parenting in adoption and/or foster care. The author is an adoption professional, an adoptee and adoptive parent. The goal is to explore and inspire commitment and support adopted people and placements.
Fri Sep 17

Do you know where your parents are

http://youtu.be/U8cHtpTUdnw?a   

Can’t they all just… get a mom?  We must do better.  Adoption from foster care is mostly an accident that happens inspite of our best efforts to thwart it.  Where does it end?   It ends when we begin to care about our lost children of foster care.  We just don’t care.   The older the child becomes the less we believe in their right to family, birth or otherwise.  Our plan is often why bother they’re aging out anyway.  Every one of us needs to own our piece of this mess. 

We must do better.  Raising our children is our sacred obligation to the healing of the psychic wound that is our collective Karma.  If you have children love them and share in a spirit of hope. If you raise someone elses children love them and heal the world. We must do better.