This is what adoption is all about.
Mandis Zenaya Mlitwas posted this about her parents last year.
She wrote:
I wanna take this opportunity and thank God, for putting these wornderful people in my path.
I am an adopted child
I feel loved every single day that I wake up in the morning and I am hugged.
I call when I am in trouble and my dad is right there within a short space of time.
This month last year we lost my mom to cancer, so now it is just my pops and me.
I always laugh when we are out and people find out he’s my dad.
He takes me out on lunches, he opens doors for me, he hugs me every day, tells me he loves me, helps me wash my hair
He makes me breakfast and I’m 21!
He buys me my favourite foods and drinks.
He is my best friend!!
I can even talk to him about dating.
He is so cool!!
Thank you God, you took my mom but I still feel loved and i will forever be grateful for her and my dad taking me in and loving me like their very own.
RIP mom
—-Mandisa Zenaya Milwaukee
I so relate to this.
To me adoption is win win.
It doesn’t matter if the parents are black, white, Asian, Mexican or gay.
What matters is that the child has a home and parents who love them.
If you have a story about adoption that you’d like to share please do.
And share a picture too if you can.