The Essential Adoptee Question: Who Made Me?—Adoption Issues Wednesday
In yesterday’s contribution on Lost Daughters, I discussed my childhood curiosity about my biological roots, and how one letter from the adoption agency changed my adolescence. Read on …
“The Letter” from the agency became my Life Guide
The Essential Adoptee Question: Who Made Me?
Where do babies come from? … A quintessential childhood curiosity.
Heck, at her insistence, I’ve already had to explain to my unsqueamish (biological) four-year-old the important distinction between a stomach—digests food, and a uterus—grows a baby.
As a mom, I enjoy reminding my kids that they used to be tiny, tiny beings inside me; that Daddy and I made them.
Perhaps biological children are secure in the knowledge of their origins, so they simply want to know about the process, the details.
Do adoptees ask different questions?
Trying in vain to fill the void
As a child, I certainly thought I knew where babies came from.
Clearly, you get a baby from a birth mother, and it has something to do with her “loving the baby enough to give it up.”
Instead, I wondered, Who made me?
Thank you for sharing the post! This is what I need to find, these essential question.
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