Thought for today: ( For all children brought up without a mum)
"I have spent the first three years of my life in an orphanage. Adults who cannot parent children naturally don't want to adopt children of my age. They want an infant to take home with them because they believe that the younger the child is, the less they will be damaged. Birthdays and Christmas time is not the same when you have no parents or brothers and sisters to share them with. Even going to sleep in one's own bed can be so cold and cheerless. I would rather be with a family sleeping top to tails in overcrowded circumstances than on my own with no other touch in bed with me. When I get too unhappy, I get out my chalk and draw a picture of how I imagine my mum to look. Then I curl up snug inside her tummy and pray that she keeps me there always and doesn't leave me again to face the world alone! Where are you, Mum? Why did you leave me on my own?" William Forde: June 1st, 2013.
"I have spent the first three years of my life in an orphanage. Adults who cannot parent children naturally don't want to adopt children of my age. They want an infant to take home with them because they believe that the younger the child is, the less they will be damaged. Birthdays and Christmas time is not the same when you have no parents or brothers and sisters to share them with. Even going to sleep in one's own bed can be so cold and cheerless. I would rather be with a family sleeping top to tails in overcrowded circumstances than on my own with no other touch in bed with me. When I get too unhappy, I get out my chalk and draw a picture of how I imagine my mum to look. Then I curl up snug inside her tummy and pray that she keeps me there always and doesn't leave me again to face the world alone! Where are you, Mum? Why did you leave me on my own?" William Forde: June 1st, 2013.
