[mjan]

I don't know why I am having such a hard time writing this. I am afraid my wording might not come out right.

Our reason for adoption is that we want to have another child, but believe there are many children that need loving homes. We have two biological children. I had a difficult pregnancy with my son and do not want to repeat that. But honestly, even before our children were born, I knew that I wanted to adopt. Two of my best childhood friends were adopted.

Maybe if a few of you could share what you wrote for your reason for adoption, by pm or in this message, I might have some inspiration.

Thanks!

[Shelley]

I don't see that there's anything wrong with what you wrote. Maybe fine-tune it a bit. We had 3 sons and felt our family wasn't complete and wanted to add a daughter. SHelley

[Lissa]

What you have it totally fine. We adopted because we tried to conceive for 5 years and did not. We wanted a child and adoption was something, even before we started to try to have a baby, my husband and I discussed as an option. That's about all we wrote.

[Happy2Bhere]

For our adoption petition, we used the format our agency gave us:


We are adopting, once again, to add to our family. We are anxious to welcome another daughter into our home, as well as have a sibling for our daughter, Annabelle. We are very excited to be able to do this through adoption, especially through China. We feel we have alot to offer as parents, and are very excited to be able to share our love, family & home with another child. Both of our daughters, although both adopted, will be placed in our hearts & minds the same way a biological child would be. They will always be loved & cherished, and a true blessing.

Then, I did a paragraph on age range, health issues, and the statement they require- that we attest we will not abandon our daughter.

Hope this helps!

Melissa

[ttcasey]

Our petition was pretty much the same, we too are blessed with two biological children and said if we had a third (or fourth) it would be through adoption. We also feel that our family is not complete. My husband and I have been very fortunate in our careers as well as our family and friends to be able to provide for another child. This child will be brought up as our own, in love, education, inheritance. Hope this helps, your social worker will help you too with the wording.

Trish
LID 8/17/06

[jbzanie]

I don't have the petition with me but I think we wrote the following:

We have struggled with infertility for the past 10 years. We were able to have one daughter through infertility treatment 6 years ago. For the past 5 years, we have been trying to add another child to our family but yet again are faced with the challenges of infertility and miscarriages. We decided to change our path and look at adoption. We would be blessed to be matched with a child from China and we attest that we would love this child as he/she were our biological child.

[sakelley]

This is what we wrote as our reason to adopt:

We decided from the beginning of our marriage that we would like to adopt a child. There are so many children in the world who need a home and we have one to provide. We have felt that no matter how we create our family, whether biological or through adoption, that child will be our own. Every time we discussed where to adopt from, we have always leaned toward China