When I am trying to think of reasons that I have heard some that people don’t consider adoption is they want a healthy baby. If you are having a child the old fashioned way can you guarantee a healthy baby with no complications?
Here are some scary statistics about births in America:
1 in every 618 births in America is premature * That is about 440,000 per year born premature *50 babies are born premature every hour of every day * 25,000 babies born as stillborn every year * One in 33 are born with birth defects
My point is that there are no guarantees that the child you give birth to will be healthy. If you have a child that is not in perfect health will you love them any less? Can you guarantee that your own biological children can you guarantee they will be illness and disability free?
There are so many children in the foster care system that is perfectly healthy. Don’t get me wrong there are those special children that do have physical or mental disabilities but do they not deserve a family too? Some say that they could not consider bringing a disabled child into their family because you don’t think you are strong enough.
If you choose surrogacy and the child comes out with a disability would you not welcome that baby into your family? Consider this if you had a biological child and they had a disability would you put them in foster care? Would you put your baby up for adoption? Would you love that child any less than any of your other children? So why would you not consider a child with disabilities for adoption?
What about if your child had been healthy and then the unthinkable happens and the child gets sick or hurt and is never quite the same; would you still be there for your child?