Adoption as a First Choice
It isn't just celebrities who are adopting "by choice." I personally have a half dozen friends who, like me, have bio and adopted kids. Even the editor in chief of Adoptive Families magazine has bio and adopted kids!
About a third of the contributors to A Love Like No Other, the adoption anthology that I co-edited, have bio and adopted kids. You might say that isn't scientific. But a few years ago, I wrote a magazine article about families with bio and adopted kids and found research indicates that about 25% of all adoptive families today are made up of so-called "blended families," those with bio and adopted kids. And that didn't include all the single parent and gay couple adoptions.
The reasons people have for choosing adoption are varied: Some of them, like Brangelina, have humanitarian motives. I've also found in my research that some have had a bunch of boys (by birth) and just really want a girl. Still others were like me and my husband: we were having trouble conceiving and didn't want to get on the high tech, fertility mill.
Simply put: adoption has become more accepted as our world has become more tolerant and multicultural. (Or perhaps it is vice versa). When will people wake up to this new reality and put those tired stereotypes to rest?
Stumble It!
posted by pam at 12:16 PM
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