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Re: Re: Second child...considering options
Originally Posted By Yvonne
Unfortunately relinquishing your child to adoption does not guarantee that he/she will have two parents. Adoptive parents divorce at the same rate, if not a greater rate, than everyone else, which is at least 50%. In addition to that, many single parents are adopting these days too. Other things happen to adoptive families too, like illness and death. They are not immune.
It is quite an eye-opener, twenty years later, to search for the child you relinquished and find that their life was no better financially than what you could have provided. Quite an eye-opener, especially when that was the reason you relinquished.
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