[riley6]

Smiles, thanks for clarifying your original post. Sometimes when first timers come here, THEY know everything about themselves and know their intentions, but don't really explain that much about themselves, so they post a little (which is natural) and then people misinterpret what they say. Anyway, I think it's great that you want to adopt a bunch of special needs kids who might otherwise go with out a family. My suggestion is to read up on everything you can about FAS and RAD. These are two things that many of our kids come to us with.

And to one poster, sorry I forgot who, wrote:

I'm always amazed when I read that it's only older children in the system. Weren't they once reasonably healthy newborns/infants to? As I read some of the posts here, I'm glad my parents did not feel I was unadoptable due to the fact that I was 13 months old when they met me.

The majority of the children in the system waiting to be adopted are over 5 and have more problems. The younger, healthier children are usually adopted by their ff's or are quickly referred to an adoptive family. Yes, the kids were once younger, but either it took until they were older to come into the system, or they became older while in the sytem. VERY sad situation our system makes! Also, I'm VERY glad you were adopted so young!