[mdesi]

How do you handle people, usually well meaning, that make the claim that people should adopt to save a child? Or assume that you are doing it to save a child?

DH and I have decided that we are adopting to build our family, not save a child. We really try hard to make sure that people understand that our child will not be a charity case, and that we are not doing this to achieve sainthood. We think it is a terrible burden to put onto a child, too. However, it seems that this another general misunderstanding that the public has.