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I read a post on the subject of adoption and the concept of a single story.  The post talked about how the idea of a single story cannot be extrapolated to represent an entire population, using adoption as the specific example.  Rather than me paraphrase, I recommend reading the post yourself on The Adopted Ones Blog (and watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk too, it’s worth it). While, I was struck by… Read More

In my mind we’ve been slow to embrace adoption as our route to having children – we first started to seriously consider it back in March/April 2014 after our 4th miscarriage. In fact, my very first post on the subject was on April 9, 2014. It seems like some people just know that they will adopt a child(ren). For better or worse, we were not those people at all! 1 year ago,… Read More