This weekend I finished, "The Strength of Mercy" and "A Treasury of Adoption Miracles". They have taken me forever to read because the end of the school year was so busy! They were both extremely inspirational! I kept thinking as I was reading them, these women are amazing! Why in the world am I supposed to be an adoptive mother?
I just got "Lost Daughters of China" in the mail yesterday and plan on starting it tonight. (And by the way, I know book titles are underlined, but this program won't let me keep the font underlined, even when I cut and paste from Word -- I didn't want anyone who knew I had a degree in writing to be diappointed in me!)
Last night Greg and I watched the "China's Lost Girls" documentary. I cried all the way through it. It was so good! It took viewers through the whole process of the Americans who arrive over there to pick up their girls. It also had a lot of candid interviews with locals.
I am off for a week before teaching summer school. I am planning on doing lots of fun stuff with Connor, so be watching for extra cute pictures of my little man!
2 comments:
Strength of Mercy is an awesome book. It was the first book i ever read about adoption before we decided on domestic adoption. I loved it.
Secondly, in reference to your previous blog. I know firsthand the things that many Chinese women endure. While i taught there, one of the teachers in my school told me the stories from her own life. She felt she was so lucky to have a son but had been pregnant on many occasions and had many abortions before she finally got a son. She offered on several occasions to birth a girl for me and let me have her if i would raise her in the United States. It is a completely different worldview. One i still don't understand after living there.
What some people probably don't realize that by adopting a little girl from China you are quite literally saving your daughter's life.
The most amazing part of the documentary last night was hearing about the strain that gender imbalance is putting on the country. This generation of men will be outnumbering women by a lot. When it comes time for them to marry, there will be no wives. Women are already being sold into marriage for practically nothing. The documentary exposed how some the girls who aren't given away, grow up feeling worthless and live in fear of being kidnapped or sold. It completely broke my heart! I just kept thinking, I want Claire out of there!
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