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I do not know everything about my neighbor’s lives, family situations and I don’t know personal information about my children‘s teacher’s family life, so why should my family business (including adoption) be public knowledge and gossip?

We have one bio daughter and three adopted children. A number of people know this but they do not know or remember which is which. I think it is funny when someone asks which ones are adopted because you cannot tell. What differences does it make which one is born of me and which ones were born for me? I usually just laugh the question off and say it does not really matter which are adopted. I do not go up to a pregnant woman or a mother that has just given birth and ask, “Was this baby planned? Did you conceive the natural way or did you have to have medical help?” I do not do this because that is their child that they love and it is not my business about how that child came to be.

Every child and even adults will find different ways to work through being adopted. One way will not work for all and we all have to find our own path and peace in being adopted.

About my personal views on adoption, to address the question of how I feel about my children's adoption and adoption:

I believe that adoption is one of the most amazing and wonderful gifts that some of us are blessed to get, and to experience. I have a wonderful family that I was adopted into (yes, not a perfect family but one I am proud to be part of). My dad (adopted the only one I have) is the most important person in my life, I cannot imagine my life without him in it.

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