We knew we would love the baby adopted by us with all our hearts

FOLLOWING Ann McElhinney’s features on inter-country adoption (Irish Examiner, April 15 & 16), I would like to give your readers the other side of a story in which she didn’t seem interested.

We knew we would love the baby adopted by us with all our hearts

She generalises to a frightening degree, picking and choosing carefully the information she provides. She writes about the corrupt regimes that encourage adoption of their children and claims “Irish adopters do not want to face the truth that foreign parents have the same feelings of loss that we have.”

This is a very sweeping statement, and a very naive one at that. My wife and I spent years worrying about what was best for these children, before finally deciding to adopt from abroad.

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