The Unofficial “Why the adoption establishment annoys me” Blog Week beginstoday. If you would like to read the blog entries or participate, visit Land of Gazillion Adoptees: http://landofgazillionadoptees.com/ LGA also has a facebook group where the blogs will be posted and PEAR will try to keep up withthem on our facebook page as well. Participating Bloggers committed to the event …
Category: Families of Origin
First Mother Letters
We were recently made aware of a project by one of our members at PEAR and we would like to share this idea with our friends: First Mother Letters is a project of Weaving Families Adoption Ministry. The First Mother Letter project as a way for adoptive parents, adoptees and first parents to share letters from the heart. Letters that …
Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of Another Mother Who Lost her Child to Adoption
~by Suz Bednarz How could I, me, a mother who lost a child to adoption in 1986, possibly help adoptive parents understand the role of families of origin? Didn’t my role end the minute my child was taken from me and given to them? Harsh question but until a few years back that is what I was lead to believe. …
Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of a Mother who lost a child to adoption
~ by Mirah Riben The United Nations has determined that the difference between a good and bad life for a child is a mother with a sense of empowerment. Adopting a child today is far different than it was a generation or two ago when it was felt best to keep the entire process secretive. Adopting today requires accepting the …