
I just have to ask is that what I and a gazillion other
Adoptees and First Mothers are doing ? (along with I should add, some enlightened adoptive parents)
I
shouldn't read Adoptive Parents (
AP's) or Potential Adoptive Parents (
PAP's) Blogs. 9 times out of 10, when I do I end up with a headache.
The self entitlement from many is just overbearing.
The "but we know many adopted children who are just fine with their lives, and are happy they were adopted" - Um hello we are not children anymore for one thing, and for another
adoptees are VERY good at pleasing others and wearing a mask, because its what
you want to hear and they don't want to hurt
your feelings.
The very fact that they think the adopted baby is a
gift - I mean
P L E A S E why not just ask
for your new baby to be wrapped in appropriate gender color and couriered to you - hey what a great idea MAIL ORDER ADOPTION. I mean to say after all there is already websites with the baby's and children to choose from, so hell why not put them through the check out and have them shipped on over whilst you are there!!!
Oh come now, think how much easier it would be, a website with lots of babies to choose from, I mean what does it matter right ? a baby is a baby, what does it matter what the background is, just select a baby to make that "must have" "want it right now" "at all costs" mummy and daddy nice and happy. So select your baby, select its going home outfit from the designer wardrobe online, select some appropriate toys and
cuddly's to keep it happy
en route to you, place the items in your cart, go through checkout, pay the appropriate postage - how much is it to send a baby these days ? I mean its very expensive to Buy a baby upwards of 2o grand that the paps balk at so how much is it to ship one out ? anyone know ?..anyway price aside, have the little GIFT wrapped up nice and tight with all its accessories and pretty soon it will arrive at your doorstep, and you can unwrap your new little gift..
How exciting - I LOVE Gifts don't you ?
Adoption - the gift that keeps on giving !!!
So my point to this ? I recently came across a blog quite by accident, and as I read it I thought
yada yada same old same old
PAP's talk, the whole gift thing, the whole God has a plan for us etc etc..you know the usual. but then horror struck my heart, as after I had left a reasonable comment I received some communication back from these people.
Now you see I try my hardest NOT to comment on paps blogs because I might get really mad and say something mean! so i just try to co-exist in blog land, but this one really made me upset.
You see they were promised a gift, and the gift died. But
thats ok because that was gods will...
And would someone please enlighten me as to how someone can actually believe that a baby that is in another
womans tummy, who this pregnant woman has decided (out of sheer desperation, i feel sure) to put her baby up for adoption and has chosen these pap's as the adoptive parents , that in just TWO MONTHS these people believe this is THEIR BABY ?
You see what I mean by entitlement don't you ?
Two months and they are absolutely devastated by the loss of their baby who was still born. That their *dreams* of being Mummy & Daddy and all the fantasy land that they lived in for two months of playing mummy and daddy all died with their baby.
This is where I get very VERY Angry.
What about the MOTHER ? what about the baby's Sibling ? They are the ones who have lost something NOT you.
Oh
woops silly me. You lost $$$ and yes they actually wrote how devastating it was to have lost so much money.
What do you think happens to a everyday fertile couple who have a baby ? who buy everything ready for the baby? maybe move house ? maybe buy a bigger house ? only to lose the baby before during or after birth ? They don't get ANY refund.
Sadly, Devastatingly in fact (my very close and dear friend lost her baby after giving birth) Baby's DIE, its a fact. And if you are going to adopt an unborn baby you have NO control over that.
The more I read the more upset I become. Because what happens when the baby you were going to adopt dies ? and you lose money ? well you try and do it on the cheap *rolls eyes* and even going so far as to advertise on your blog....because you can do it on the cheap with a different lawyer AKA Baby Broker if you bring the Womb for Sale to him.
It makes me mad, It makes me outraged, it makes me terribly sad. Why ? because these people that write these things know, no better...They think because they *know* some kids of adoption that are all grown up with no adverse affects (noticeable) or someone who has adopted a kid with no visible trauma (yet) that adoption is just hunky dory, and then after receiving a different view point, one that is too the point but not nasty, they have audacity to write to me and tell me off for it in the guise of "of course others viewpoints are welcomed" yeah right !
And the outrage over abortion from these people, but yet they seem to have blinders on when it comes to adoption that its just fine and dandy to remove a baby from its mothers womb and take it away forever, Its just a different kind of abortion. Its a Living Abortion.
You know, when these people read my blog and this post, they are going to be mad, no doubt, but I have given NO identifying information, no link to their blog, no names, so the only way that anyone will ever know it is about YOU is if you go on the defense rampage.
But
i'd like to address some of the things written to me by them to me here so that other
adoptees and or first mothers can comment and they might see that it
isn't that I am "just a bitter
adoptee" that
infact this is what adoption does.
One comment to me was :
Now, I could blast you for your careless words, comment on the bitterness that you really need to let go of, strive to help you understand that you may be looking at this wrongly.
I am not bitter. I am hurt, I am confused, I am sad, but I am not bitter. You
haven't read my blog to know me, but I loved my adoptive mother very very much. I went from a size 12 to a size 6 during and leading up to her death. I was traumatized by her loss.
I love my adoptive father very much and he is very much a HUGE part of my life. I worry how I will cope when he goes. And I become a Orphan (again) Age really doesn't matter.... and with that will probably die the last remaining held on by a very stretched tie to my siblings..My Adoptive Parents Bio Siblings who frankly just never *got me* Its already waned dramatically since my adoptive Mother died..
I'm sure it will be the finally end....
Btw I use Adoptive Mother and Father wording in my blog so as to differentiate here for my readers, but in the real world I never refer to them as anything other than Mum and Dad. They are my Real Parents as much as my First Mother is.
It is the one part of the adoption language I loathe - REAL - when someone talks about my *real* mother - does that infer that I am fake ?
Anyway to continue...
The blogger then talks about their infertility to me and starts down the *God* Path...one comment which stands out was this........
We do believe strongly in God and we see this as God choosing for us not to have biological children. He did this many times in the Bible. Some He chose to give children finally and some He did not. God has chosen not to give us a child of our own so we are choosing to adopt.
Um hello..the Bible is a BOOK. You do not live in fantasy land in a book, you live in the REAL WORLD, God did NOT make you or your wife infertile on purpose so you could then take another baby from some other poor unfortunate soul. (not sure who has the BIOLOGICAL or EMOTIONAL/MENTAL issue)
I believe in God too, but he doesn't cast down and strike women Barren ! or men sterile! It can be due to numerous issues. When you were conceived, during the pregnancy that held you, during your formative years, genetics etc etc. What God does is give you is the strength to believe in him to HELP You to SUPPORT you through it all. If you believe in God that strongly this is what you would believe..I am a believer but I do not always see eye to eye with God and I am not a Sunday Worshipping Christian, in fact I do not even go to church regularly. I do not believe You have to. Church is about Community. You can pray anywhere to God and he will hear you. Might not answer you, but you will be heard (bit like husbands really :P )
The next part of the letter was this (in reference to the second birth mother (
I've said birth mother in this sentence as second first mother sounds a little confusing !) :
Now, this mother was not expecting to get pregnant. But she made choices that resulted in this pregnancy. She could have aborted the baby, but she chose not to. Her two babies she has now are more than a handful and she is not going to be able to take care of them as well as a newborn. Yes, maybe she could eventually, but that is not mine (or yours) to judge. Since you seem to want to bring religion into it please remember that the Bible says "judge not, lest ye be judged". All we know is that this woman loved this child enough not to abort it, but wanted to 1)allow the child to live, and 2)help a couple that could not have children of their own to experience the joy of having a little one of their own. This baby will receive full love in our home. It will not matter that it did not come from my wifes belly. This baby will be born in our hearts and will have the full rights and privileges of being our child. Adoption will not be used as a punishment against the child.
Hmm big time Triggers here, My First Mother chose to not be able to support two children after she discovered she was pregnant with me and so adoption was the plan for me. She chose NOT to tell her HUGE family who could have helped take care of me, because it was the late 1960's and she was raised in a STRICT IRISH CATHOLIC family, God loving parents that had the children praying on cold wooden floors for hours a day when they were younger. She had already had one child out of wedlock so to have another would, in her eyes cast her as the devil forever...
So I was kept a secret under baggy clothes in another town where she lived, worked and raised her 1st child as a single mother.
So the moral of the story then is I should be GRATEFUL that I was not aborted ?
Hmm ?
And yes I am sure that the
womans first thought was to help an infertile couple out ! Not !
Wow Full rights and privileges of being your child , gosh I hope they will be grateful for the rest of their god damn grateful life !
How exactly does one use adoption as a punishment ?
The more I read your words the more upset and angry I get !
I am sorry that you had such a horrible experience of adoption and that you have had to endure such pain and torment. But I would encourage you to let go of that hurt, that anger and bitterness. For whatever reason your birth mom/dad chose to place you up for adoption at least they chose to allow you the chance to live.
I am not sure what you have had to go through, but you can change what is going on inside you and celebrate your life.
I am not sure if you have even read this far down. I would love to continue to chat with you if you would so choose. I would love to find out about your adoption experience. What you went through, how you found out about your being adopted. I would love to learn from you so that the child we adopt will not have to endure the heartbreak you have carried all these years.
Give it up already! Stop telling me to be so grateful that my mother chose not to abort me but rather give me away like a .........oh I know................GIFT!
Nothing has happened in my life, i was not abused, I was not treated badly , in fact I had WONDERFUL Christian parents who loved me to pieces, in fact put me above everything else.
So i had the perfect life really, money, whatever I wanted basically, lots of love etc..but there is one thing that can not be given, and that is your identity, your heritage, your kin....You can not fix the hole in someones heart that occurred when mother and child were separated.
The amount of adoptive parents or
pre adoptive parents blogs that I read talking about how its gods will and gods gift and
yada yada..makes me ill, these people use this as a crutch to shut out the voices telling them its not so great after all. Adoption is NOT all flowers and hearts. Even for us that have wonderful adoptive parents we still have a huge part missing that can never be replaced by you and that eats away at us inside.
The other thing I would like readers to comment on is babies and dogs. These people have a number of dogs. They are in fact as they state *their babies* These people are about to bring home a baby, very quickly decided by the first mother and who is soon to give birth. There is no way in hell that these dogs are going to accept this no matter HOW much in charge the Male of the house is. What happens when he is away ? and the wife who had the *babies* aka Dogs now has this little bundle of joy carrying around in her arms ALL DAY AND NIGHT ? what exactly do you think these babies are going to think of that ?
Here are a few insights
Two week old baby mauled to death by family dog
11month old baby mauled to death by family dog13 Month old baby mauled to death by family dog4 month old baby mauled to death by family DOGS8month old baby mauled to death by family dog
1 month old baby mauled to death by family dogThere are many many MANY More of these stories tragically and you can not blame them ALL on bad breeding or bad owners. Some of these animals were well cared for.
And that is the problem. These dogs that are so well loved are going to feel threatened and they WILL act like a Pack to remove that threat.
I'd have to ask if you wanted a baby so much would you be prepared to do ANYTHING For that baby ? including getting rid of KNOWN aggressive dogs ? Whilst they could be happy now once a threat comes along they will revert to their pack mentality - they are after all dogs.
If I was to see an adoptive parent remove any hint of a threat to their new baby, then I would have more respect for them in their belief that they really want a baby and will do anything for that baby. I don't see this in this case.
All I see is people using god as a cloak, all I see is pure self entitlement.. These people are removing a baby from a family, this unborn baby has a mother and a sibling...these people are being a part of that sorrow by adopting this baby...
I don't care how its looked at, its wrong.