tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285119309352247083.post134445126482074193..comments2023-05-25T05:33:40.516-07:00Comments on ReunionEyes ... Kathleen~Cathleen: #FlipTheScript on National Adoption Month 2015Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508960321983502749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285119309352247083.post-53382948134300287482015-11-03T09:58:41.590-08:002015-11-03T09:58:41.590-08:00Kerri! Your words strike a chord! Love, love, love...Kerri! Your words strike a chord! Love, love, love this, "Our biological tree is the core our roots which are embedded in our DNA, it is the beginning of who we are. Our adopted family is the trunk of the tree, representing, how they teach us to cope with our adoption and life's trials and tribulations/ it is where we learn our value and worth. We need both our biological family and adoptive, to grow to be fulfilled, happy and complete. We need to know that we are loved and accepted no matter how we came into the world, how different we are, or why we came to be adopted. "Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023385584895242286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285119309352247083.post-60131698311412939122015-11-02T23:53:29.039-08:002015-11-02T23:53:29.039-08:00Good on you for speaking your truth, adoptees have...Good on you for speaking your truth, adoptees have been left out of adoption, sounds so odd and so very strange to even think of but we are not permitted a say, on past, present or future adoption agenda's. We were denied a proper and equal place with the mothers into our own inquiry into ,"Former Forced Adoptions", apparently many of our issues did not meet the terms of reference. So very strange indeed? Adoption is a very hard a road for so many of us, especially of those adoptees who choose to remain connected to their adopted family. Of those of us who pull away or are pushed away, we have been able to find our voice much sooner. For those who have wanted nothing but our two families to connect and learn to love each other as we love them, has often remained nothing but a dream. Governments do not want to understand that children can love both sets of parents, just like when we marry and are accepted into a new family tree. Adopted children can love and accept ALL the parents with in their life. Why do adoptive parents and their advocates, want to own us, control us and feel insecure about who we love. Our biological tree is the core our roots which are embedded in our DNA, it is the beginning of who we are. Our adopted family is the trunk of the tree, representing, how they teach us to cope with our adoption and life's trials and tribulations/ it is where we learn our value and worth. We need both our biological family and adoptive, to grow to be fulfilled, happy and complete. We need to know that we are loved and accepted no matter how we came into the world, how different we are, or why we came to be adopted. When our relationship with our biological parents is destroyed and their character discredited our own self worth becomes corroded and eats away at us with often devastating results. For what does it prosper a person to obtain a child by adoption, only to destroy it's soul by lies and falsehoods, participating in beguiling language and actions that demand that the child love them above all other parents. What can it profit them when the love given by the child cannot being given to them of their own free will, openly and honestly but driven by fear of rejection. and judgement. Adoptees should have everything to say about adoption awareness week in Australia and Adoption Awareness month in America, stop silencing us and covering up all the damage done via the institution and act of adoption. We are Adoption! We are the experts on what adoption can and cannot do for a child. We are the professionals of how it affects us, for our entire life. Yet we are treated as if we do not have an opinion worthy of a hearing, or value and the same mistakes are made over and over and we wonder why so many children are in state care, why so many adoptees suffer mental illness, physical disease, family breakdown, substance abuse, self hate and self harm. When will our government wake up and allow adoptee's their rightful place at the family conference table..instead of being sent to our rooms and punished for wanting to take part in fixing their broken system and corrupted views of adoption. kerri sainthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00988880959337344250noreply@blogger.com