The Ransom

I didn't really know in the beginning what the Ransom meant.  I've seen it in the adoption blogs but didn't really put the two and two together  but soon enough I did and I know now exactly what it means.  It's the sum of money that stands between you and your child. It's the sum of money that must be paid before you can take your child home, love and take care of them.  When someone decides to adopt it's not only for their own well-being, sometimes it's not for their own well being at all; it's for the well being of the child.  So, when that someone decides to give a child a home it should not cost them thousands of dollars to do so before they even see the child for yhe first time. I know, domestic adoption will not cost you a penny and our social worker asked us; why not domestic adoption? There are children who need homes in our own backyard. I realize that, the difference we felt was that children overseas suffer more, needlessly.  Here we will do a great deal to help a child's medical needs and we have great programs and interventions at our disposals whereas the children in the poorer countries do not. So, why not help a child there?  But it is the ransom that will stand in most of our ways. My little LB received her Princess PJs I sent her and I know she will wear her Princess PJs every time she goes to sleep but she will not have her momma tuck her in; she will not get her kiss good night and she will not hear her momma say she loves her until this ransom is paid.