


This reflection of the Fox News website caught my eye:
More often than not, women are stigmatized for their choice to place their child for adoption. In my experience, however, it was never a lack of love that led women to choose adoption, but an abundance of it. I have seen that it takes immense strength and compassion to choose life for a child and then to selflessly place them in the arms of another, with the hope of giving them a better life.
Because of these courageous women, my hopes and prayers of becoming a mother have been answered.
The top of a piece includes a Rachel Duffy interview with actor Kirk Cameron and adoption advocate David Scotton about the recent movie Lifemark, which tells David’s adoption story. The documentary it is based on — where we watch him meet his birth mother for the first time, and his tremendous gratitude to her — is available online for free here.
I interviewed David, Rebecca Rogers, the actress who plays his adoptive mother in the movie, and Benjamin Clapper, executive producer of the documentary — I Lived on Parker Avenue — below: