Parenting Is A Privilege, Not A Right

And family preservation is a moral obligation

Photo by Liv Bruce on Unsplash

Strap in for the Mother’s Day essay you didn’t see coming. Be prepared to get angry with me. It’s fine. I’m used to it. Just maybe sit with this for a while and read the sources, ok?

When I started seriously interrogating my identity as an adopted person, it led me to question adoption more generally. I began researching the…