Tag: National Adoption Month
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The Words We Use: National Adoption Month 2018
Lexicon: the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject. (Merriam-Webster) I wrote my book An Adoptee Lexicon, in which I discuss forty-five terms that are significant to me as an adopted person, because I want to…
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Reflection (a poem)
In response to today’s National Adoption Month prompt from Lost Daughters, I’d like to share a poem I wrote years ago after my first child was born. This poem was originally published at Poets on Adoption in 2011. Reflection You with…
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Please Don’t Celebrate My Adoption
Today begins National Adoption Month, an initiative originally intended to raise awareness of the thousands of U.S. children in foster care who are waiting to be adopted because they cannot be reunified with their biological families. The first day of…
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One View on National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month, and I am an adoptee. I was not adopted because I was an orphan or because I was in foster care. My adoptive parents did not rescue me from starvation or disease (or any of…