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Hope you don't mind an adoptive mom chiming in...I've tried to convince my son's birthmom to join a birthmother's support group, or to take an advantage of some other support that connects birthmoms with one another but she is very resistant at this point, two years after the adoption. We have a very close relationship but she seems to have distanced herself from other women who have placed their children in an adoption. I think she carries with her some of the same stereotypes the general public has about birthmoms and she thinks she won't be able to relate to "those peple". I hope she will decide to reach out in the future because I think the support would be so helpful to her, and I think she could offer a lot to other women who have placed their children.
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