[hopeful-4-twins]

that is too sweet...they adopted you...thats great! I am so hoping my biological son will accept any children I bring into the home no matter how they got there. Either way they will be my kids and his siblings.

[meshsgrl]

I am a new single parent in a very conservative community. Ok at the moment I dont have any kids... but had one FS and am waiting for the call for more. I am a widow and people can not understand why I would want to burden myself with kids, plus I don't have any friends at this point who are single parents. I do have many friends who have what the they think is the perfect life LOL Responsible, reliable husband, house with white picket fence, and 2.5 kids, 2 vacations a yr... yadda yadda!!!
I am CC and my FS was AA.... I am 25, he was 8, I got some interesting looks!!! I loved peoples reactions!!
I work with a lot of differnt kids (not foster) so I always have kids with me weekends, but how do you explain that kids are foster without saying that in front of the kid? The FS I had didnt like for me to say he was foster or that he was my son... so I just told people he was "my kid" which seemed to work, but then there had to be those people that blurted out.. " oh so you got a foster child" and the nosy questions!!!!!

[DannieAS]

This is one of the first talks my mom and I had before I began the application for adoption (i'm in the middle of the process, have no children yet)...

she told me that after the initial placement and adoption of course she will say that her grandkids are adopted, but after a while, they will just be her grandkids with no explanation and I need to be ok with people making assumptions.

Sometimes people are just nosey. I'm sure that it's easier said then done and I will be having to answer this for myself when I have a live child or children with me.