If the desire to love someone by choice is a trend, it’s a trend I’d like to see continue.
Once again, Abebech nails it in Dear Ladies Of The View.
The ultimate goal is, of course, to keep families together. However, when those children who, yes, need families, are adopted into loving, ethical families who recognize and strive to learn about their issues of loss, then maybe, just MAYBE it’s time to pack judgment away. Perhaps the world at large can instead support this family As. A. Family. rather than cast aspersions on them like people such as Sherri Shepard do, without knowing so much as one thing about Mary Louise Parker’s motivations in adopting her new daughter from Ethiopia or, I’m assuming, knowing Parker’s daughter’s circumstances.
Yes, that does go for other adoptive families with the same traits — loving, ethical, learning about issues of loss — too. It could help to also remember that, as a very wise woman said to me, most people are really doing their best. I would think that helping, supporting, and gently educating them would go miles further than scolding and beating them down would.
At any rate, thank you, Abebech. Bravo to you!!
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