{"id":24013,"date":"2019-09-11T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoption-2020.local\/adoption-in-one-word\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T00:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:13:44","slug":"adoption-in-one-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/adoption-in-one-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption in one word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adoption In One Word (hint\u2026 it\u2019s love)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether you are considering adoption for your baby, thinking about building your family through adoption, have already placed your child for adoption or have adopted one or more children, you are familiar with all the words. You know all of these emotions, and may have even felt them through your process. The one prevailing word that weaves its way through all of them is love. If it wasn\u2019t for love, none of the other emotions would exist.<\/p>\n<p>Adoption is many things; it\u2019s the definition of complex. Every emotion, hundreds of laws, lives changed forever\u2026 Infinitely complicated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adoption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a completely natural thing to nurture and care for a child, even if that child didn\u2019t come from you. However, it\u2019s not a natural thing to place your child in the arms of another to nurture and raise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natural \/ unnatural<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adoptive Mom: \u201cThe most beautiful feeling in the world was when I first saw my child and his birth mother handed him to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birth Mom: \u201cIt was the most painful moment in my life when I handed my baby to another mother\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy \/ heartbreak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adoptive Mom: \u201cThe woman who made me a mother is the bravest soul I know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birth Mom: \u201cPlacing my child for adoption was the scariest experience of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brave \/ frightening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Birth Mom: \u201cI am so proud of the child I created and the family I helped build\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birth Mom: \u201cI never talk about it \u2013 people don\u2019t understand&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pride\/shame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adoptive Mom: My child\u2019s birth mother will always be a part of our family<\/p>\n<p>Birth Mom: I feel so alone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family\/Isolation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adoptive Mom: \u201cThe love I feel for my child is indescribable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birth Mom: \u201cI will always love my child; until the day I die\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love\/love<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adoption In One Word (hint\u2026 it\u2019s love) Whether you are considering adoption for your baby, thinking about building your family through adoption, have already placed your child for adoption or have adopted one or more children, you are familiar with all the words. You know all of these emotions, and may have even felt them&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10914,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649],"tags":[1140,1146,1144,1145,1143,1142,1141],"class_list":["post-24013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-mothers","tag-adoption-in-one-word","tag-birthmom-heartbreak","tag-birthmother-isolation","tag-birthmother-pain","tag-birthmother-sacrifice","tag-heartbreak","tag-selflessness"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}