Black Moms Adopt is a blog about a black family along their adoption journey. The hope is to encourage black moms and families to adopt from foster care in the US.
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Two months before the day Precious Boy (PB) came “home”, we met for first time at a playground. The social worker introduced me as a friend, “Miss Bea”. PB was excited to climb on the monkey bars. Again and again, he squealed “hold me, hold me”. Each time I answered, “I am here for you”. …
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Adoption has its own language and words and names. In adoption speak in America, we are a “forever family”. My precious boy “came home” to his “forever home”. Speaking about a forever can help a child feel rooted as they try to make sense of a big change and move. (A “forever home” sure…
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I wondered about myself as a parent, my future child and the child’s first parents. (I will use “first parents”, because in our home we talk about how my child has many families who love him.) I had heard stories about children who trash the house, hoard food, steal, set the house on fire, are…
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As I reflect on adopting, I realize that I had a lot of ideas—and questions and worries and concerns. I had lots of stories in my head. The idea to adopt first came to me when I was seven. I had a plan to adopt. And no, this was not an example of special powers…
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