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Jody Earle has contributed in many ways to the infertility support network that numerous individuals benefit from every day. Among her important contributions are her writings that have appeared in infertility and pregnancy loss support group newsletters in New York and across the US. We would like to share some of them with you.
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Infertility's Roller Coaster
Struggling with infertility is like riding on a roller coaster. First you must admit you want to do it. Making that decision doesn't feel very logical. Next you muster up enough courage to get started. When you're finally ready to start, you find a waiting line preventing you from beginning. Then you discover the cost is more than you planned to spend.
You have to be willing to relinquish control to someone whom you probably don't know. You assume that those someones will make no errors. You are required to follow the rules and constraints established by others. You hope the roller coaster you've chosen has passed the rigors of inspection and approval. You are certain that years from now technology will have made some improvements on the whole thing. --------Jody Earle
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Speaking Positively
Using Respectful Adoption Language
by Pat Johnston |
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"Respectful Adoption Language (RAL) is vocabulary about adoption which has been chosen to reflect maximum respect, dignity, responsibility and objectivity about the decisions made by birthparents and adoptive parents in discussing the family planning decisions they have made for children who have been adopted."------- Pat Johnston
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Inside Transracial Adoption
by Gail Stienberg and Beth Hall
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"Inside Transracial Adoption provides creative, confident, pro-active, and
provocative guidance for parents who are experienced veterans or who are considering transracial adoption for the first time. Whether through domestic or international adoption the authers offer direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races". - http://www.pactadopt.org |
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"What does it mean that we live in a country in which white women disproportionately undergo expensive technologies to enable them to bear children, while Black women disproprotionately undergo surgery that prevents them from being able to bear any? Surely this contradiction must play a critical part in our deliberations about the morality of these technologies. What exaclty does race mean for our understanding of the new reproduction? " - Dorothy Roberts
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"I contend that the ethos of self-reliant isolation and silence is, in part, attributable to African American Women's internalization of social stereotypes that typically portray only white women as having difficulty conceiving. This self-imposed loneliness is magnified because many African American Women believe that they are, in fact, alone-that there are no others who have similar experiences with infertility. To counter the emotional isolation that accompanies infertility, a fertility specialist recommended a support group to Jocelyn, but it was a group that met far form the city where she lived. Moreover, it included no other African American women." - Rosie Ceballo
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