[davisgaskin]

I can understand your feelings. We recentley adopted our 10 year old foster son. We had an adoption party for him and sent out 60 invitations equaling about 200 people. We recieved 15 responses and out of that 25 families/individuals came. Although it did hurt our feelings it was more of a shock that none of our friends came or responded at all. We had sent emails to everyone when the adoption was completed and a few weeks later sent out the invitations to the party. And none of our friends responded at either time. The party was about a month ago and since that time my friends won't even respond to phone calls or emails. I agree that alot of people treat adoption like a horrible disease. But this has been a great lesson for us most of the individuals who did come where other foster families and case workers ect. I think we never realized how important in our personal lives these people are. Until now it has felt like more of a work relationship not true friendship. We have started having foster/adoptive care play dates once a week for the kids (including activities for the teenagers) which gives us a good time to be with others in the same situation as us. I feel blessed that God has opened my eyes to see what great new friends are out there.