I've been considering adoption for a while now -- I imagine that my husband and I are physically able to have children, but it's something that I'm frankly not interested in, for a few reasons:
- carrying a child and giving birth just doesn't appeal to me
- we both have medical conditions in our family (not in us specifically) that we don't want to pass on if we can help it.
- there are so many kids already in need of good homes in the world...why bring more into being?
- I have 17 nieces and nephews already...I don't feel a particular urge to pass on my family's genes, since we've already got that covered well enough
But I worry that because we do have the ability to have kids (I assume), but are choosing not to in preference of adoption, that it might be viewed as strange by others. I'm not sure what to say when I tell people that we are considering adoption, when they ask why. It also seems like most of the people that I see posting here are either couples unable to have children, or parents that already have some bio children, and are choosing to add to their family by adopting. Is there anyone else in the same boat as me?