Hi! Just yet another perspective...I placed a baby for adoption at 20, as I knew I couldn't give him the life he deserved and never regretted it! When I was married and stable, after four years of fun with infertility, we decided to adopt and then got pregnant! But the whole adoption process through the state got us thinking about all the kids who need homes, and we are now adopting a 13 yr old. So at 40, I have a teenager and a toddler and we are loving it! We are considering adopting again, but who knows what God has in mind for us? Everything seems to tie together in the end.
I think being touched by adoption more often than not gives you a unique opportunity to be open to building a family in non-traditional ways, which can only be beneficial to you personally as well as to society. The more you stretch the envelope of your mind and experience, the more effective you are as a person, and specific to adoption, as a parent. Despite the stresses involved, I wouldn't want to live in any other world!
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