That's My Adoption Story and I'm Sticking to It

By David N Laschinger

Of the parties involved in adoption - the birth parents, the adoptive parents and the adoptee - the adoptee is the only one who typically has no choice in the matter. The adoptee is at the mercy of the two sets of parents and others who are making decisions that will affect the rest of his or her life. Fortunately, the formal adoption process has laws designed to ensure the best possible outcome for the innocent person, while offering protection from unnecessary interference in personal lives of the other parties.Author, David N. Laschinger was an adoptee. His birth mother went to an unwed mother's home in the summer of 1951 and was told that adoption would be best for her baby. By surrendering her child, she could return to a normal life in the small central Texas town, unblemished by the unexpected and veiled pregnancy. A childless couple wanting to adopt a baby was selected to adopt him shortly after birth. When David was handed over to the adoptive parents from east Texas, it was a pivotal moment in his life. From then on, he would be on a different path than if the adoption had never occurred. Did he have a better life than what might have been if he had not been adopted? No one knows for sure.Adoptions don't always go as planned or expected. Surprises happen, people change, grievances build, adoptive parents divorce, dysfunctionalities occur and a myriad of things can make the outcome less than perfect.How did David's life turn out? That's the subject of That's My Adoption Story and I'm Sticking To It.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539177777
• ISBN13: 9781539177777
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"