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Originally Posted by aprizzle
Did you feel like you "belonged"?
I always felt like i belonged. The way my foster parents treated their foster childeren where more as if we had came from my foster mothers belly. ( foster parents are my adoptive parents) If there was not the pegmint change people wouldnt have known we were not theres. (im black my parents are white.)
Are you glad you were adopted?
Yes I am very glad that i am adopted. I wouldnt change it for the world. They chose me and i chose them. I am lucky to have had the LUCK of being placed in there care.
Did you have an open adoption?
Yes
If your adoption was open, are you glad that it was?
Is I am glad it was open!! I come from a sibling group of 4 me being the only girl and the baby. I was NEVER DENIDED the RIGHT to have contect with my siblings. BIO-MOM was more in the picture when i was younger and after she went to prison there were just letters and gifts.
Do you think all adopted children would benefit from therapy?
YES
In your opinion, what can an adoptive family do help the children adopted from foster care the most?
Let them understand that this is the LAST STOP on the BUS. What ever you do will not make us send you packing and that they love them. Talk about their questions and ANSWER THEM TRUTHFULLY. Even though it may be painful to tell them the hole truth with holding information can come back and bit ya in the but. Let them know that there felling tward there experience was not their fault and their bio-mother.
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I had just decided to quit using adoption.com for support and then you answered
Thank you for your answers. Everyone of them are helpful to me. When I originally posted this, I was not even fostering yet. This was my pre-foster research. Now, I've been fostering for 2 years, and we are in the process of adopting 3 children from foster care. They are siblings, so openness with siblings is a done deal!