Read this excellent post over at Kohana’s, then this heartbreaking one at Tamara’s. What do we need to demand here? How can we get to a place where mothers get what they need to raise the children they birth?
“This child needed a system that would have allowed her to go somewhere and be with her baby while she got an education and a job. She doesn’t need someone else bonding with her baby while she struggles to do things that are, for her, nigh unto impossible. I do not know how she will do these things…
I don’t want to adopt this child if the system just throws this young girl to the dogs. Cookie’s case was extreme – beyond any doubt. Ginger has a mom who wants her and loves her and needs help. If she were just a little younger, she would have been placed in foster care along with her baby – which is exactly what I feel needs to happen now. But it won’t.”
I just got connected with Tamara’s blog not long ago and I love what she has to say! Since we’re going through the paces to prepare to adopt through the state, I’m particularly interested in learning from her experiences.