By Tina Brown
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What has this life cost you?
What parts of you perfectly spent?
What is infant free will?
What about the worth of you and me?

by Hannah Andrews
This month’s theme is “Luck and Adoption,” and it’s sure to spark conversation across our Peer Support Groups. We offer free ZOOM peer support for adopted persons, first parents, adoptive and foster parents, and DNA discoveries. Just send an email to aka@adoption knowledge.org specifying the group you identify with and you’ll receive the ZOOM invites. We have monthly themes, but you’re always welcome to speak on other topics in addition to, or instead of.  

As for me, here’s my two cents on “Luck and Adoption.”  
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My first thought was UGH. Like many (most?) adoptees I’ve been told ad nauseam how very lucky I was to be adopted. By relatives, friends, total strangers, society, the media, and the entire world. Yet, even though I knew I was “lucky” to have ended up with the good, supportive, loving parents I landed in. Many adoptees do NOT land in safe homes, this should be the least of what we are guaranteed as adoptees–safety and love–I am aware of the privilege fate granted me.