She said it like it was a joke, but sounded so weary. I got the sense that I was one of few to treat it like it was a horrible thing to say to and about her.

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I met a girl during a mental hospital stay who was talking about being adopted and said, "My parents stand by me. They say they have to, because they can't have wasted $30,000." I think about that a lot.

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I’ve thought about this word “chosen” a lot. As many adoptees have pointed out, our adoptive parents did not do any sort of “choosing” in the sense of selecting a baby from a variety made available to them. The act of matching us with our APs was done by an agency employee unknown to us. BUT…

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this is an insight. thank you, meghan. i envy people whose parents cannot sensibly say “we chose you”, because those people do not feel the weight of an implicit obligation to be grateful for having been “chosen.” 🥚

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People think baby farming🥚 is over. Nyahh, it turned into other kinds of scams instead. The latest cases I can remember is Haiti and Guatemala. Fake daycare scams is still baby farming.

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