Interesting... because I don't have those feelings. Maybe it's because I didn't see a photolisting until after I had been educated by the people on this forum and other places, and learned that I could not possibly be of help to a lot of those children. Not easy to say, but it's true. Some (maybe most) of them need things that I cannot give.
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But I have this battle in me, I am a mom, and they don't have one, what kind of a person am I to turn away any child in need of who and what I am?
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So, I guess I can read those profiles, note the ones who need someone who is DIFFERENT than who and what I am, say a prayer for them, and move on. I wish I could help them, definately. But I am not the person a 16 year old boy with violent tendencies needs. I am not the person a 7 year old girl with a history of sexually acting out needs. I am not the person a sibling group of 5 preschoolers needs.
Children like that don't need "A" mom - they need a very specific type of mom. A type that I am not and probably never will be. That's not easy to admit, but it's OK, because somewhere is the child who
does need the type of mom that I am or that I will become - and THAT is the child I can raise to be everything he can become.