The author, Bearden Coleman with WORLD Magazine, is writing a series of essays chronicling how he and his wife came to adopt from Ethiopia. Click here to read the first two articles.
In Saturday's essay he writes about the challenges of responding to the question 'Why did you adopt from Ethiopia?' Here's an excerpt from the article with Mr. Coleman's response:
"The truth is I don’t know for certain.
I imagine the person who asks me why Ethiopia is genuinely interested in what brought my wife and me to this decision. On a couple of occasions I’ve felt—or at least imagined—his or her uneasiness with my uneasiness with the question and my inability to spit out a pat answer, say, a 30-second sound-bite on why I’m adopting from Ethiopia."
