Continued from: My Journey to Become Your Mother.
Makala,
When mommy and daddy were talking about getting married we were still young enough to have a family but, made a choice that we wanted to adopt our children. We decided that in our hearts we didn’t care if our kids were born to us or if they had another birth mother. We knew we would love our adopted kids just the same as we loved Sean and Tori.
We took our time deciding how we would find the children we would adopt in our family. We could pick anyway we wanted to adopt. We researched all the ways parents could adopt. A lot of parents want to have little tiny babies and want to adopt a newborn from a birth mother who knew the best choice was to place her baby for adoption. That was a good idea and we could have picked that way.
We also knew that there are millions of children around the world who live in orphanages like Uncle Eddie. In China parents are only allowed to have one baby so a lot of children, especially girls from China are adopted by parents in America. We also know there is hunger and illnesses in Africa and South America and a lot of kids who just need a chance to grow up safe so lots of families adopt from those countries. We know there are so many children in the world who need and want to grow up in happy families. We could have picked that way.
We also knew that in the United States there are over 118,000 children who live in Foster Homes and wait for Adoptive Parents to give them a family. We knew that every year nearly 20,000 kids grow up and become adults and have to leave their Foster Homes. This reminded us a lot of what happened to Uncle Eddie and we knew that he was very hurt to grow up and never be adopted.
The thing that made us make our minds up was the fact that we knew we could adopt a brother and sister and give them a chance to grow up together. When we thought about that we made our choice and decided that we wanted to adopt two kids who were related to each other and living in Foster Care.
We decided we wanted to Adopt Makala and Jeremiah and that we could be strong parents who would be able to handle two kids at the same time joining our family. Once we made our choice we didn’t think about any other way of adoption. And started learning the things that would help us be the best parents we could be for you and your baby brother.
Continues Soon: We knew what we were getting into, and still wanted to Adopt You.
Related Blogs:
- Choices and Consequences
- Scar Tissue
- Rumors and Crutches
- The Story of Joe and Eddie
- Thanksgiving and LeRoy’s Boys
- When Uncle Eddie Took Care of His Birth Mother.
- I Married an Adopted Boy.
Special Needs and Adoption-Related Terms: Adoption terms and special needs words may vary from agency to agency. The terms used in this Special Needs Adoption-Related Glossary may be slightly different from one State to another.
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For more information about parenting special needs children you might want to visit the Families.com Special Needs Blog and the Mental Health Blog. Or visit my personal website.
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