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.
Sun Jul 17

Just in case you were wondering what it’s going to take to parent a traumatized child let me be the first to warn you. It will at times be the hardest job you’ll ever undertake. It will make demands on every aspect of your life and give you reason to question every decision and thought. It will leave you changed forever and that’s a fact.

The media either glamorizes or satirizes parenthood only occasionally do we take an honest look at the complex chain of circumstances and influences that…