[LHardi01]

Hello Everyone. I was wondering if I could get some help. I am doing a group project on adoption for my growth and development class. I am trying to take a poll on the reasons why people look into adoption. I would really appreciate it if you could help me out by answering this.

What are/were your reasons for looking into adoption?

1. Unable to have children and adoption was the way to start a family.

2. Just wanted to adopt a child to give them a home.

3. Other...please specify.

If you could please reply with your answer I would appreciate. Note that all information supplied will be kept confidential and no names will be used.

I thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Laura Harding

[DLJ]

My husband and I decided to adopt because I have endometriosis/fibroids and can't conceive.

Take care, Donna

[goofie875]

Lhardi,

My husband and I decided to adopt after 2 years of unsuccessful fertility treatments and 3 bouts of cancer. Therefore, we are unable to conceive on our own.

[janeliz]

We also pursued adoption because of infertility. Adoption is so expensive and complicated these days that I think fewer and fewer are doing it unless they cannot have children of their own. An exception might be special needs kids or foster children who are older.

Jane

[Stormy]

Laura,
We are able to have children biologically and do have a 3 year old. But my pregnancy was difficult. We had always wanted to adopt after one or two biological children. We decided after our first biological child to persue adoption. We felt there were plenty of children in the world who needed families that we didn't need to give birth to expand our family. We also felt we had strengths in parenting that would make us good parents for a child with special needs. We choose to adopt domestically through a private agency and only children who they were having difficultly placing. Many of the children who they had difficulty placing were African American, biracial, drug or alcohol exposed or had other medical issues of concern. I guess for us we wanted to parent a child who needed us for our skills and passion despite their challenges.

A

[stynx9000]

My wife and I have always talked about adopting. After we discovered that natural childbirth would not work with us, we decided that there was no time like the present to research and start the adoption process.

Ben

[SuburbanMom]

My story is pretty similar to Stormy's. I have two biological children and am pursuing a special needs infant adoption as a way of adding more children to our family. I've felt "called" to adoption since before I was even married and my husband and I believe we could be good parents to a special needs child.

[alpacamom]

my story is quite different. i have 3 grown bios, 3 grandchildren. i am adopting 2 girls, 11 and 12. i am a widow. i decided on adoption to share what i have to give with children who need it. i am also 53.

[LHardi01]

Thank you all so much for your help. I really appreciate it.

Laura Harding