Whether you are pregnant and needing information about planning options for your child, an adoptee wanting guidance through the search for your birth family, a prospective adoptive parent starting a domestic, international, or private adoption, or you are an adoptive parent requiring parenting guidance or support, The Adoption Support Centre of Saskatche-wan (ACSC) is here to help you.
ASCS delivers services that range from providing adoption related referrals to having an extensive library available to our members. We offer province wide confidential information services and strive to educate the public about adoption and adoption related issues.
As noted above, many of us are connected to adoption in some way, and with those connections come varied experiences, thoughts, and opinions about adoption. Talking about adoption is a great way for all of us to learn about the variety of topics within the ‘world’ of adoption. By doing so we help people understand that families are formed in many ways.
An understanding of current practices in adoption helps to dispel myths, and helps families and our larger community understand the process and impact of adoption today. Incorporating positive adoption language will help those connected to adoption have a more positive experience over the course of their lifetime.
To give an example of the unique and varied perspec-tives of adoption, Duncan Jardine a post-secondary student and an adoptee, shares some thoughts on adoption...
Meaning of adoption: I understand it better as I get older. When I was a baby I didn’t know what it meant. When I was a little kid, I thought the parents I had weren’t my ‘real’ parents even though they basically are.
Open adoption: I can’t think of having an earliest memory of my birth mom because it seems like she has just always been a part of my life and that she’s just kind of always been there.
Curiosity: I never really wondered about my family of origin until about 6th or 7th grade. It was around then that I truly began to understand what adoption was and so I got more curious about wanting to know more.
Feelings about adoption:It’s a wonderful thing. Adoptions happen because sometimes people are not ready to be parents at that specific time or they can’t give their 100 percent to the child. I think its great that people can have another option and give a child the life it deserves. My life has turned out great.
Advice to adopted youth: Just know that adoption is not something to be ashamed of or hide from...Embrace it.
Adoption in one word: Selflessness
