Tag: adoption
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“… if a mother loves the child, she wont go through with it.”
This image has been forever burned in my mind. J knew what she was doing. And she did it out of love for her child. The state of Oklahoma gave J and her parents a lot of extra things to do. And they did them all. There is a misconception about adoption that if a…
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Our New Son
I’m so happy to introduce you to our new son, Winston Swanson. It was less than a month ago when our adoption agency contacted us about a birth family who was interested in meeting us. I won’t go into the details here, but over the past few weeks we’ve shared a lot with these two…
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Recommended Reading: Irene’s Daughters
It’s rarely something I choose to write about, but becoming parents to our adopted son over a year ago is the beautiful subtext to our lives these days. Ours was a transracial adoption, meaning that Eliot’s ethnicity differs from ours. Perhaps at some point I’ll have something to say about our somewhat non-traditional family, but…
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and then there were three
It is with gratitude that we introduce our son, Eliot Swanson. Papers have been signed and now we simply get to enjoy him. I’ll write more about Eliot later, but for now I want to thank you for your interest and support as we’ve walked through this process. This virtual introduction hardly does him or…
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foster parenting
Maggie and I have been enjoying our wonderfully sureal weekend with our new foster son. Because there are still some legal issues, I’m not able to share many details (or photos) at this time. We’re hopeful that by mid-May these issues will be resolved and we will become this beautiful child’s parents. I wish there…
David W. Swanson 