What Adoption Means to Me

Clare C., age 11

I was adopted when I was very little so what I remember from the adoption is what my adoptive mother tells me and the pictures I have. I wish I remembered my birth mom but I only can have dreams. In my adoption, my parents changed my first name to protect me. I don’t understand this but I think they are just trying to do what is right.

Adoption means to me that a person loves you and they want to help you. You are being brought into another family that hopefully will love you like a family is supposed to. Adoption means to take good care of you. I was adopted because my birth mom wasn’t taking care of me. She made wrong choices but I do know that she loved me and I love her. I’m saying that adoption can be a good thing and your life is safe and people love you all around and you have a family. Someday I would like to find my mom but that doesn’t mean I don’t love my mom and dad who I have now.

• Robert
• Latisha
• Teresa
• Samantha
• April
• Samantha C.
• Christopher
• Brandy
• Ashley
• Lynndsi
• Nico
• Alysia
• Kenneth
• Denise
• Cedric
• Mitch
• Tawnee
• Clare
• Gabrielle
• Emmanuel

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