I've started a new group on facebook called Gay Adoption in Canada. If you haven't joined the group please do so now. For those of you who are parents please feel free to voice your experiences with parenthood. Those who are interested in becoming a parent but don't know where to start please feel free to post your questions...the point of Gay Adoption in Canada is to educate, understand and fulfill a dream of becoming a parent:
Latest Article: Remembering the Mother
Part of the process of adoption is getting comfortable with what a child may have. Autism, FAS (Fetal Alcohol Sydrome), drug addiction -- are some of the things I've encountered. It's depressing and scary to say the least. In the beginning my reaction was probably what most people think: If you're that fucked up on drugs just have an abortion. The problem in thinking this is way stems down to this: We're dealing with a child having a child!
Most of the women who give their children up for adoption aren't women...they're teenagers. In most cases, their lives are so out of control that they can't see fact from fiction. In most cases, they take the drugs to forget the past, or the present or even the future. The real world can be an ugly place especially if there's another life to protect.
In part of understanding the process or at least gaining compassion for these women, I decided the volunteer my time with the Jessie's Centre for Teenagers, a place for teenage mothers to learn about parenthood. I haven't started yet but I hope there's an opportunity to gain compassion. I can't begin to imagine how scared these girls are or where they came from...all I know is that the mother of the child I adopt is linked to me.
Our future begins now.
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