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Originally Posted by Mom2J
I'm writing this post in regards to a statement made on a thread, regarding military families. (I'm asking everyone to not post the original thread as not to flame the person who made the statement. My intentions are only to educate people about the military family.)
I'll paraphrase.... The poster stated, that if they hadn't adopted their child, he would have grown up in a military family moving around a lot with not much money.
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OH geez! Are you talking about my post? I wasn't talking about the military in general, but the bparents of our child specifically. He was stationed overseas in Japan (a very expensive country). He is an E-4 rank, they're very young, and she (non-college grad) works full time at a furniture store. In short, they didn't appear to be well off. In addition, he had been stationed at at least 3 other Naval bases previous to this assignment. Simply put, they appeared to be not at all well-off. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.
) *shrug* They chose to make an adoption plan for a reason. I just figured from the looks of it that money (or lack thereof) was theirs.
On the other hand, my younger brother (single) is an E-3 in the Air Force, and my dad was AF ROTC when I was born, so I have a general idea about the military. (Mom talks about how they didn't have much at that time.)
Also, my aunt's husband was Navy ROTC when they had their (on the fly) wedding in-between deployments during the Vietnam War.
Guess what! The military lifestyle can be difficult. While it has its rewards (such as seeing the world), the military was built primarily with defense in mind, not families.
Sorry if you were offended. Perhaps I should have clarified earlier?