re: Spin Off: Would you adopt a special needs kid?

like other posters have said, if a normal child is too much for you, a SN would be terrible.

ETA:

IF you are really interested in helping a SN child, check into inner city black children (healthy children). My wife and I were involved in a program at our local church that would drive to the city, pick these kids up, and work with them. We mainly just talked, and interacted with them. I was a male figure that they didn't have. What their mothers would do to them to secure a check from the gov was terrible. Most of them have no chance.