Adoption psychology - own vs. alien

Loving and raising somebody else’s child as your own may take psychological preparation. We have all been brought up to distinguish between people and things as ours and alien. We claim our parents and expect them to favor us compared to others’ parents. We claim our friends, we claim our toys, our room, our house, everything we can tag as mine. And just by the virtue of calling it our own, we really do attach more affection to those people and things, don't we? Then how difficult could it be to call an innocent little child our own?

Adoption - Care for One More

I have a dream for the world in 2050 - a world where orphanages are history and each child has a family. Every family that has the financial resources could adopt one child in addition to their own. This way more and more children find safe homes and can go to school.
To transform this into a worldwide movement and to promote adoption as a culture and not just a "solution" for childless couples, I have started a community of like-minded people on facebook: Care for One More. This group is a starting point for brainstorming and realizing that ideal.
Children of today will become the world of tomorrow, we cannot secure our own future unless we secure theirs. So come, join us in making our world worthy of its children:
http://smusg.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5547318261