I was browsing through some of the adoptive parent profiles that come up in some areas of this site, and now I'm worried that DH and I won't have chance to adopt.
These couples are so perfect and so much better than we are. All the ones I've looked at have higher education -- a lot of them have master's degrees even. DH and I don't, although I have a fairly good job that I can walk to, with good health insurance and benefits, and DH will be going to nursing school soon.
A lot of them will have one stay-at-home parent which we won't be able to afford to do. They obviously make a lot of money -- they have nice homes in the suburbs. DH and I live in a single wide in a very small town.
If I was a birth mother I know which one I'd most likely choose for my child, and it wouldn't be the people who live in the single wide in the sticks!
How can we compete with people like that? No matter how much love we have for a child, will we always come up short compared to wealthier, more "citified" people?