NAAM Day 1: Welcome to the Worst Month of the Year: November 2024. National Adoption Awareness Month

It seems like only yesterday that we put this baby to bed, and already it’s National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM) again.  In the past, I’ve included the additional/redundant name National Adoption Month (NAM), but I’ve pretty much scrapped that one. Whatever it’s called, it’s that very special month when the adoption industry cranks its noisemakers and marches its brass band across the country to share the good news of family displacement, identity erasure, and kicking adopted people to the curb. Continue Reading →