Adoption Disruptions/Dissolutions Increase
I hate to admit this but about six months after we adopted AJ it crossed my mind.
Fleetingly.
And you all know that I am as honest as the day comes.
I was exhausted. I was not just tired, I was exhausted to the point that getting up in the morning was painful. I would daydream about naptime and I would forfeit my lunch just to get a few more minutes of precious sleep.
Your Favorites of 2007
You all have distinctive tastes…and it gears towards shopping. It’s okay, it is what I like too. But you also liked reading about charities and news too. In only three months here is what you liked best.
1. Pajama Program
2. Hallmark Ornament, It’s Back!
3. How Much is Too Much?
4. The Out of Sync Child Podcast
5. Disruption and Dissolution?
6. Adoption Do’s and Dont’s
7. Guatemalan Congress Proposal
8. New York Times’ Relative Choices
9. The Truth, I Feel Like a Horrible Mom
10. How to Write a Birth Parent Letter
Attachment and Dissolution, More on Poeteray
Disruptions and dissolutions happen in the adoption community but they usually happen within days or weeks, not after SIX years. I am certainly not "recalling" my child (see title of the post) but Dutch Diplomat Poeteray is in the process of dissolving the adoption with his daughter (who has no citizenship in Hong Kong or the Netherlands ) six years after adopting her from Korea.
Raymond and Meta Poeteray handed their daughter, Jade, over to social workers in Hong Kong saying the adoption had not worked out.
In a statement published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf (and the BBC News), Raymond …read more




