NANO & National Adoption Month

[onyxhawke]

Originally published at Agent Incite. You can comment here or there.

Somehow I failed to notice that it it was National Adoption month. Fortunately the nice folks at Adopt Us Kids tweeted a reminder:

It's National #Adoption Month! Visit the #NAM12 web site: http://t.co/h6mXvgGh Resources for families & professionals. #childwelfare

Comments

[brownkitty]

Would Gregor Vorbarra count as an adoption, or a fostering situation?

[xander_opal]

Foster situation. Mark is more of an adoptee, methinks.

[onyxhawke]

Mark is almost an in=law, he didn't really join the family until he was an adult.

[onyxhawke]

Fosterling, and even that was more in the way of a boarding school in a lot of ways than a 'new member of the family' sort of way.

[issen4]

It's probably for the same reason orphans in fantasies usually turn out to be the heir to the throne: people don't like the element of randomness and maybe in the back of their heads, that unknown quality, or randomness, is actually a source of instability. So all their insecurities get projected that way and you get evil orphans. Or something like that.

Or maybe writers think that adoptions that went smoothly would be too boring in fiction.

[onyxhawke]

Unknown as applied to a child/person known for decades has always struck me as a tiny bit absurd.