When the Orphan Crisis Has a Name

for me, the statistics are no longer a number, but one little girl lost in the system

You are reading my personal reflection. This was originally posted in 2018 on a now-defunct blog, but the concept of putting a name to a statistic has been floating around in various circles recently, so I wanted to share this again. Many of you know that two of my three children are adopted; you may not know who opened our hearts to adoption. You may not know that all our children are named after her.