Adopted- SOLD Hooded Sweatshirt

I'm often labeled as "lucky," and always encouraged to be "grateful" that I was "chosen" over being aborted. It took several years for me discover that the threat of death was not hanging over my head. When I contacted my birth parents, I learned that abortion was never even an option.

As I came to know the Lord, I started to see how the system of adoption was a counterfeit to God's divine adoption through Christ. So often, these two are deemed parallels, and adoptive parents are seen as saviors. However, this is idolatry and it places a huge burden on the adoptee. 

As I started to come out of the fog, I began to see that all along, I was the tool for serving other people's wishes and desires. At this point in my life, I grew so incredibly depressed, because I had no idea who I was. I was simply trying to be whoever I was being told to be, to avoid conflict.

I realized that I was not adopted, in the biblical sense. I was sold, in a wordly sense.

Faith in God, however, has taken me far.

A lot of people don't realize that our adoption system is promoting legal human trafficking and that so long as adoption exists as a business, it cannot be ethical or impartial. I think this t-shirt is a summarized way of educating others on this.

Perhaps it will encourage others to do some research.

I decided to write a book so that I could validate the adoptee experience.

The book is called: Why Aren't You Like Me? The Brochure Said You Would Be.

It is currently available on my publisher's website: lulu.com. It will be available at Barnes and Noble and on Amazon within the next month.

I hope it brings peace and comfort to many. 

Link: Why Aren't You Like Me? The Brochure Said You Would Be.

I host a YouTube Channel: Cristina Fernandez