NEW COMMENTS FROM JAY, BELOW ON 7/23/13
Received tonight as a comment at the last Baby Veronica post, but it is too worthwhile to leave as a comment alone:
Jay Iyer said...Thanks for this comprehensive, sad post. I am writing as an
adoptive parent of a boy who was taken from an abusive family and placed
in foster care. I also write as a foster parent who helped reunify a
little girl with her mother. These experiences helped shift my vision
from an adoptive path focused on securing for myself a long-desired
child to one of recognizing the importance, to a child, of an upbringing
integrated with biological identity. I feel that adoption should occur
only when all avenues for placement within a child’s biological family
are exhausted. Much as I adore my son, I felt a profound loss on his
behalf when no safe “forever” home was found among members of his first
family.
Received tonight as a comment at the last Baby Veronica post, but it is too worthwhile to leave as a comment alone:
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