Being involved with adoptionblogs.com blogging has been a tremendous learning experience for me. I have been enlightened with other people’s adoption journeys, struggles, beliefs, and everything that comes with adoption. Who would have guessed I would have learned some much by sharing my thoughts, experiences and insight.

Looking within my self and addressing my adoption journey and the issues I have faced along the way has been a great benefit to me. When you’re adopted, it is just that, you do not always stop and think about the entire picture or how things relate. The other adoptees that I know have also been great learning tools when bringing everything together for this blog.

I am still hoping to continue learning about different aspects of adoption and the types of adoption. To learn is to continue growing. Coming into this I did not know a lot about international and open adoption. Now, I can not even begin to share what I have learned.

I have learned being an adoptee, and an adoptive mother is a very different road to travel as the one I have been on as an adoptee. The two roads do run parallel most of the time, in the view of others you are quickly thrown on different sides. I do understand more so now that I have a different insight into adoption.

I would have never guessed the deep division that exists in the adoption community and how it affects adoption as a whole. This has been a huge lesson to learn and not an easy one at times. I am learning (yes, still learning a lot on this one) that some people do not want to see things differently in adoption and sadly, some of them are the ones involved with adoption.

The greatest thing I have learned is that they are a lot of happy (including the adoptees) families built through adoption. Granted, I totally realize there are some people involved in adoption that are unhappy and have not found peace in their journey.

More reading:

Is There Room for Both?

Unethical Adoption

Life Choices and Accepting Responsibility

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