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.
Thu Aug 18

When is a person not endowed by their creator with those allegedly inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

When they’re adopted that’s when. Seemingly for adopted people the world colludes in your statutory disenfranchisement.

Surely the ability to lay claim to one’s lineage or at the very less have access to the legitimate original documents after a time is in the spirit of a free and open society. Yet so many are denied this most personal of all information by…