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Adopting Our 9-Year-Old from China
We’ve all made some monumental shifts over the past several weeks.
Shifts from school to home-school. Shifts from office to work-from-home. Shifts from fellowshipping with loved-ones, to being separated by a screen. The list goes on and on. And those dramatic shifts will continue, indefinitely, until we get to the other side of this thing.
Adoption professionals are experiencing these drastic shifts just like all of you. We are working from home. We are trying to juggle our work responsibilities with our personal responsibilities. We are relying on electronic connectivity now more than ever. But perhaps more challenging than the physical shifts, are the emotional ones. The shifting of our thoughts, and the questions swirling in our minds:
Will my loved one working on the ‘front line’ remain physically healthy?
What about emotionally healthy?
Will my child’s newfound anxiety subside when this is all over?
Are my loved ones, far away, going to be okay?
These questions, and many others like them, plague us all. But a couple more that adoption professionals are faced with: What does all of this mean for the children who wait? What does this mean for the future of adoptions?
Part of me wants to put those two questions out of my mind. Part of me wants to just focus on the now, and worry about getting through this crisis, and get back to the children when it’s over. Because right now, it’s all just too much to comprehend. But the other part of me….the part that dedicated itself long ago to children who wait, won’t ever let that happen.
The children are always in my heart and on my mind, no matter what else is going on. And in times like this, especially in times like this, times when it would be so much easier on my mental health to be able to let just one worry go, is when the children who wait are even more so embedded in every single thought.
So maybe you are thinking, “Yes, I agree. The children CANNOT be forgotten, especially at a time like this. But what on earth can I do to help the children now? With everything that is going on?!” I’ll tell you!
There are so many things we can’t do right now. But rather than focus on those things, let’s focus on the things we can do to continue to advocate for the children.
So wherever we find ourselves right at this moment….be it ‘paused,’ worried, locked down, front lines, etc., please don’t forget about the children who wait. The children who would give anything to be part of someone’s everything. The children that deserve the love of a family.
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Madison Adoption Associates is a Hague accredited, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to bring hope, love, and a permanent family to children in need. By serving children and families through domestic and international adoption, our work is guided by the following core principles: Conducting our business activities with our heart first and an unwavering commi...
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