Talking About Adoption ...

Forming a family through adoption is one of the greatest privileges I can imagine, and we are blessed in that the people in our lives are always thoughtful, compassionate and sensitive to the special circumstances that brought us together.

I do, though, get the occasional insensitive question from people who we only meet in passing - but I do appreciate that sometimes good intentions don't always get expressed the way they need to. I thought this blog post (link below) was really informative and a good reminder about how to ask questions of an adoptive family.

http://www.danoah.com/2010/09/how-much-did-your-kid-cost.html

Our family has maintained an ongoing willingness to talk about adoption in the right context and in the right conditions, though I can see that the dynamics continue to change for my daughter as she grows older and navigates her life with more ownership, and thus begins to grasp a deeper meaning about her history – her’story’.

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