Are you a mom if you adopt?
When showing off what I believe to be a lovely design for this blog to family members I heard a comment I didn’t believe I would ever hear from my own family.
Then again, it is my family I’m discussing here.
Why, you ask?
Well, that’s a very good question one that I’m a puzzled about too.
You see, apparently because I didn’t actually carry Zadey in my very own womb here I shouldn’t be displaying a pregnant woman because well, I wasn’t pregnant with Zadey.
WHAT?
I didn’t carry her, does that make her any less my child?
Wait, let’s back up. My parents adopted before actually having “their own.” A term I really hate. Adoption is not foreign in this family. I suppose I could understand if this comment came from outside the family.
Perhaps I felt that after the hell of 4 months living with Zadey’s birth-Mom I could display the idea of pregnancy as it relates to my own adopted child.
Perhaps it’s just an image in symbolism. What do you want? A woman with a baby on her hip and that would make it easier for you because you wouldn’t have to think that I didn’t carry my own child?
Shortly after Zadey was born and home, I made a post regarding the views others have about adoption. What I never realized is that those views would be imposed by my very own family members.
It’s a shame, really.
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