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What if I invest my whole heart and life and every resource I have into giving them a good life and they choose to follow their birth parents’ footsteps. We love them so so much!!Īren’t you afraid your kids will end up like their birth parents? I’ll admit, and I’m ashamed to say this but… YES. What could we possibly discover that we don’t already know about our kids. We know that the clock is ticking for two of our kiddos – that therapy and medical interventions need to happen NOW and be consistent so that they don’t repeat the cycle ahead of them. Adoption isn’t a cure for our kids’ past trauma, for the neglect or abuse or exposure to drugs in utero.
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Someone’s full time job is pretty much whiting out documents.)ĭo I really need to look at these? I don’t think that there is anything we could discover about our kids that would change our minds about adopting them. (Yeah, let that sink in next time you want to complain about your job.

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Redacted because a professional whose sole job for the State is to sit down and black out any names or addresses or contact information listed in the records, probably spent ten hours sifting through the lives of my babies, blacking out names of birth family, former foster parents and other placements, and any information that they deem necessary to keep private. It’s called the Redacted File or Disclosures.

A formality in the process of adoption, this is the State’s way of giving an adoptive parent every piece of information they need to make an educated decision as to whether to complete the adoption of their child. Detailed compilations of their trauma, how they came into foster care, vital records, birth records, CPS intake calls from strangers, maybe even family, legal records, case notes, notes from CASAs, etc… Their stories before they were mine. These two thumbdrives, given to me this afternoon (August 28, 2019) by our Adoption Social Worker, possess the entire histories of our 5 children.
