Food for Thought

I am very lucky to have found a website devoted entirely to adoption blogs. Surprisingly it is at adoptionblogs.com.

It has it's own section on Ethiopian adoption. There is so much to learn and prepare for that it really is overwhelming at times.One of the last blogs was on people wanting to adopt children who are truly orphans. That is something that I never thought about. This was on one of the more recent blogs.

"Certainly there are uncles and grandparents who do a good job taking care of children. However in many Africa countries, life is lived so hand-to-mouth that there simply aren't enough resources to provide for a niece or a nephew along with the person's birth children. If there's only enough money to buy food for 3 kids, suddenly being saddled with your sister's two kids can feel like an overwhelming burden. Kids are sometimes sent out onto the streets to beg, or are treated like servants in the household."

Truly a different world.