S3E34: "Selling Blessings" x Qadriyyah Safiyyah Mabel-Dorothy

"Your creation was the best I could be for you." - Qadriyyah S. Mabel-Dorothy

Listen, much like The South, African American birth mothers got something to say! Outcasts in their own right, Black women who choose adoption for their babies often live with shame, even when they believe their choice was the best they could do at the time. Following her divorce, Qadriyyah knew that she didn't want to have more children. God, however, had different plans, revealed to her in recurring dreams of a beautiful, Black baby boy. She knew she would have another baby and also that she was "giving birth to somebody else's baby." 

Twice.

Navigating through lack of adoption knowledge, denied requests for therapy support, a "janky" money-focused adoption agency, family and friends who didn't understand her choices, all while raising children through anxiety and depression, Qadriyyah's journey shows parenting and adoption take more than love.

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RECOMMENDED ADOPTION RESOURCES

• The Cradle Sayers Center for African American Adoption
• LISTEN: Voices of African American Birth Mothers on The Black Adoption Podcast: S1E10, S2E4, S2E8 
• BlackAdoptionMatters.com
• READ:  My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children by Denene Millner
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