Over the holiday season I witnessed many friends and colleagues celebrating their first Christmases with their new sons or daughters. It was a special time for them filled with many family, friends and copious posing with babies for pictures. It struck me then that I spent my first Christmas on earth alone. For reasons I [...]
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The sad side of adoption.
Posted in Adoptee, Adopting, Adoption, Canadian Adoption, adoption reunion, adoptiveparents, birth father, birth mother, birth parents, childrensaidsociety, closedadoption, family, foster care, tagged Adoptee, Adoption, birthfather, birthmother, firstChristmas on January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Special Infertile Couple
Posted in Adopting, Adoption, Adoptive, Canadian Adoption, adoptiveparents, childrensaidsociety, family, infertility, tagged Adoption, adoptiveparents, brother unconditional love, infertility on December 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
What is infertility doing in a blog about adoption? Everything. In most cases, it is infertile individuals and couples who build a family through adoption. Without adoption there would be many benevolent people who desire children but because of a fate beyond their control would live a childless life.
My adoptive parents (my parents) were such [...]