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| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
At birth adoptions are a little different. Basically, its all the parents that cant have children of their own (my mom had a hysterectomy at age 20). They REALLY REALLY want a child, and arent going to give it up. |
This is true. There are tons of people waiting in line to adopt a newborn baby. There is no bouncing from home to home, those babies go right to their adoptive parents and don't know any different.
Sly, the kids you are thinking of are the ones where the parents kept them but were unable to properly raise them due to poverty, mental issues, violence in the home, neglect, etc. These are the kids who have it rough, usually they are age 3 or older, and have been left with behavioral and developmental problems because of their parents. Nobody wants to adopt them, so they get bounced around the foster care system until they are 18. And some foster parents are caring people who want to help kids out but a lot of them just look at those kids as a paycheck.
I have mad respect for a woman who will go through 9 months of pregnancy and then labor, and then make the mature and selfless decision to let someone else raise that child so it will have a better life.
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