For more than twenty years, the adoption community has
observed November as National Adoption Month. What was originally
started to help educate the public about adoption, and to help bring attention
to hundreds of thousands of waiting children in North America, is now a time to
celebrate adoption, the diversity of the family, and understanding the needs of
children and families worldwide.
Adoptive families have more
reasons to celebrate than secret recipes for Borscht.. There is International Women’s Day, Kwanza, Gotcha Day, and
Thanksgiving, and more. Each one a reason to celebrate adoption, the diversity of the
family, and to promote a better understanding of the uniqueness of adoptive
families. While it is this uniqueness that brings them together, it is the
similarities that bind adoptive families
together.
Labels: Adoption Awareness, Cultural Identity, Family, Heritage, Holidays, Inspirational, Parenting