Just yesterday I was faced with "that really pisses me off!" I told my friend, at her baby shower, and one of her friends that we were considering international adoption. The friend of a friend who is a social worker said "You know that really pisses me off. There are plenty of kids here that need homes I see them everyday! People like Madonna and Angelina Jolie make me sick adopting from other countries!" Then later another co-worker politely said "I just don't agree with that when there are children here that need homes." Okay maybe I would consider the point a foster parent was trying to make, but if I am doing something good dont't tell me how to do it, when you are doing nothing at all!!! How about the point that American foster children are not dying from diarreah, or they aren't institutionalized as infants. Why does it seem so crazy to love a baby you haven't met, pregnant women do it all of the time? I have other children like so many of you, I see my babies and think "there is room for more and I know that they are waiting for me." How can I deny children just because I didn't pump my genetic material into them, what makes one child so much less than others? Does the town you're born in matter? Is it the state? The country....continent? Where is this circle of worth??? I know where my heart is and when I have my child in my arms NO ONE can tell me that he/she is not mine!
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