Florence and I came to adoption down very different paths. But on each of our journeys, we were lucky enough to meet an adoptive mother who made the hope and possibility of adoption real to us.
For Florence, it was a chance meeting with a colleague who happened to pull out a picture of her Chinese daughter. Suddenly, adopting a child wasn't an abstract idea, but an attainable reality. Before long, Florence was filling out her own adoption paperwork. A year later, she traveled across the world with her husband and young son to Luoyang, China, where a tiny girl was waiting.
Seven years later, my husband and I were preparing for our adoption homestudy, when I was put on a project with Florence at the ad agency where we both worked. Seeing Florence with her kids convinced me that I, too, could become a mother, not through the miracle of birth, but the miracle of love.
The internet is filled with information about adoption. There are literally millions of pages on one adoption site alone. (If you're here, chances are, you've been there!)
But there is an emotional truth to adoption that cannot be translated into words on a page. And that is why we've created this series of short films. Each film shows real mothers telling their real stories, each on a different issue: from the journey to motherhood, to overcoming fear, to speaking with kids about their adoption.
Each of these women opened their lives and their hearts to us - and to you. So, if you don't already know any adoptive mothers, you do now.
