【Social Focus】Love ~ Never let go！
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| by Mayur Gala |
In Taiwan,
Liu Yung is a very famous writer. He has been contributing lots of goodness and
righteousness to Taiwan society through his books and speeches. However, his
status as being adopted caught my attention.
Liu Yung
was adopted as a baby. When he was 9 years old, his adoptive father died. Since
then, he and his adoptive mother only had each other. At age of 13, when everyone was still celebrating Chinese New Year holiday, a fire destroyed their only home at the second night of Chinese New Year. Then they
lived in a crappy home roughly built on the remains. Just right after everything seemed going smoothly, Liu Yung suffered from a severe illness at age of 16 to the point that he had to drop
out of school for one year to recover. Life challenges did not leave them alone. At age of 20, his home got
demolished so he and his adoptive mother were forced to live in another place
besides railway. Even life was so difficult, the adoptive mother never gave Liu
Yung up and tried her best to raise him as a very fine man with outstanding
achievement.
The
adoptive mother’s love to Liu Yung was beyond “blood”. She did follow through
her commitment to her adopted child. This is what all social workers in
adoption field so wish for.
Unfortunately,
there is this paragraph in Taiwan Law stating “termination of adoption”.
Although the condition listed is so strict, adoption termination are seen a
lot. This kind of hurt of being rejected, being abandoned or not being worthy,
to an adopted child last forever. It also leaves deep sorrow in the social
worker who handles the case.
Therefore,
the professionals in every disciplinary have been trying hard to ensure the
perspective adoptive parents are well-prepared to make this lifelong commitment
and never let their children go no matter in what kind of circumstances. The
same thing applies to the adoption in USA as it has re-adopt, which the
adoptive parents can place their adopted children for adoption. We do hope one
day in the future, there will be no “termination of adoption” in Taiwan.
Reference:
2. http://m.cheers.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5055741
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