Looking for adoption and fostering experiences

How many kids do you have currently? I'd go with an Asian or a genetically enhanced kid with professional league potential, like the Blind Side movie.

I know some people who foster kids and the stories they tell of the parents and grandparents getting custody and then losing custody and getting custody again is depressing. It is really crazy the lives that small children with screwed up parents have to live. And through it all they only want to be with their mothers and it will be different this time. I don't know the answer to your question but it takes a special person to do this.

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Thanks! Just texted you

I don't have a foster child but I consider it a very honorable thing to do. If you end up providing a home to an orphan than society owes you and your wife a debt baw

Thanks. We know we will foster at some point. We feel that theres too many kids out there in bad situations that would thrive with proper love, support, and discipline.

Meh. I went to HS with several kids from normal, upper middle class families that died from heroin overdoses. And one that was several years younger than me but ended up being a serial killer.

I have stories. A friend of my wife had been divorced for a few years but wanted children. She was not in a long term relationship and her religion was against her having children out of wedlock. She is stable and employed. She decided to adopt.

She began looking into it and found that it was almost impossible to get a white child. The demand was high, the waiting list was long and the biological mothers occasionally had some pretty high demands. She found that she could get a black child for the asking so she got one, then another about a year later.

She was given information about the parents circumstances and chose based on the mothers not being drug addicts. She got two sweet little girls who she loves, and they love her. One is old enough to be in school and is an honor student. They are being raised with old school values and are blossoming under her care.

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considering so many just go the Chinese girl route.

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International adoption is a mess. I wouldn’t recommend it under any circumstances.

I’ve arranged three adoptions. Each is a challenging situation for everyone involved. But overall they have been very rewarding. The only reason I got involved in those was that the situation came to me. I’ve never made any money off of adoptions.

The difficulty with wanting to adopt is that there isn’t a supply of babies to adopt. Fostering children in trouble requires extreme generosity and patience. If you have that to give, you are needed.