Adoption is so much on people's minds lately, with all the Haitian babies on the news. And with the lawsuit on gay marriage going on in California, gay and lesbian families are getting quite a bit of attention, too. But I started poking around a little bit, and realized that there aren't many blogs that bring together our family's experiences.
We are a white lesbian couple who have adopted four Black children, two domestically, two internationally. To varying degrees, three of our children could be labeled "special needs."
We adopted our first child just about ten years ago. We worked with a wonderful private agency in a large city which was supportive of gay and lesbian parents, a rare find a decade ago. Our first son came to us straight from the hospital when he was three days old. Our second child, a daughter, also came to us at three days old. Our third adoption was twins, a girl and a boy, born in Liberia at the end of the 15 or so years of civil war there. Our twins came home to us when they were almost nine months old.
At this time I have decided not to identify us by name on this blog to protect our children's stories. See above for the nicknames I am going to use for each of the children, for my partner, and any other people I end up talking about.
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