When you’re told many time how you’re so “lucky”, but don’t feel it. What’s luck got to do with it? Is adoption “lucky” or “loss”?
For someone born into Ireland’s mother and baby homes, “lucky” didn’t feel the right word. The questions that went unanswered – why was I there, what happened, and the stigma that didn’t go away.
I didn’t feel so “lucky”.
People often frame adoption as luck, rescue, or something that should inspire gratitude. But that language can flatten a far more complex reality. In other areas of my life, I found this also.
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What’s Luck Got to Do With It? Is Adoption “Lucky” or Maybe Not So “Lucky”?
This story explores the tension between being told you were “lucky” and living with the deeper truth of loss, displacement, and what it meant to be born into Ireland’s mother and baby homes.
What does adoption look like when it’s not forced into a comforting narrative?
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