A good friend of mine from college was Vietnamese and adopted by a family in Louisiana when she was 6. She grew up with them, called them mom and dad and their other children brother and sister. Years later, when she was in high school, the rest of her family (dad and sister and brother) emigrated to the U.S. She still keeps in touch with them, and they are her family, too.
I think this is one instance where international adoption worked, where my friend knows she got out of a rough situation as a kid, got to grow up with all kinds of advantages in a loving environment, and then got to reunite with her birth family later and everyone gets along. I just wish it could be so good for every internationally adopted child.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:54 pm (UTC)I think this is one instance where international adoption worked, where my friend knows she got out of a rough situation as a kid, got to grow up with all kinds of advantages in a loving environment, and then got to reunite with her birth family later and everyone gets along. I just wish it could be so good for every internationally adopted child.