Family Life with Adopted Kids

Raised in a very conservative family, it never really occurred to me the idea of adoption. Before my perspective about family is narrow and child-like, a mom and a dad together with their biological kids, nothing more and nothing less. I guess my only exposure to this kind of family setting are the old Filipino drama series that depicts adoption in their family, the cliché that the adopted child and the biological child gets switch and so on and so forth. So it dawned on me how a family life with an adopted kid is?

See, “Love Sees beyond Differences” has been such an eye-opener to those children whom at a young age seeks for the warmth and comfort of a family. It made me expose more and understand to stories of people, to the idea of connection and to unconditional love. Stories about people for how diverse life really is, there are couples who are blessed with little angels and there are those who are not, there are children with family who took their parents for granted and there are children who couldn’t wish for more but a tight hug from parents who can call their own. Secondly the idea of connection, of how not only blood or surname connects people, not only these two labels you as a part of family. Family means so much more than being that, Family means love more than anything. Finally unconditional love, perhaps this is the real standard of being a family, the love that loves you for who you are and for whom you are not, the love that doesn’t care about where you’re from, and the love that sees beyond differences. Going back to the question how a family life with an adopted child is? I think it has no differences at all from the family life with biological kids. A family life with adopted kids has all the elements it needs to stand as one, a mother and a father with their adopted kids and most importantly the unconditional love that ties them to stand as one. Those kids may not came from the mothers womb but they came from their hearts, They are a family nonetheless.

By Igel Manalo