Day 3 - Education
We hadn't known anyone personally that had adopted when we started the process the first time so we had to get educated! One of the biggest parts in educating with adoption is what openness is and the terminology that is used. My boys were placed for adoption and not 'given up'! Their birth parents spend a long time looking through families and finding just what they wanted for their children. I am not easily offended but when it comes to people saying the wrong things about our birth families or adopted children I get very upset, but also try to remember that they are not immersed in the world of adoption and that I need to educate them on how they should say things as to not offend others.
I was at first terrified of an open adoption because I wasn't educated, but the moment I was, I knew that it is what I wanted for my future kids and loved the idea of it. I am so grateful that I became more educated in openness because I don't know what I would do without our birth families!
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