Adoptee or Adoptive Parent.?

â€ Lawrence Râ€

I'm a 55-year-old father of 3 adopted sons.

kateiskate

I'm a 21 year old Korean adoptee adopted into a white family. I have abandonment issues, identity issues, but still somehow have decent self esteem. I hate the fact that reunion is very unlikely for me.

Linny G

I am a 43 year old closed adoption BSE adoptling in reunion. I love both of my families and cannot understand adoptees or a parents who dont get that.

Anha S

30 yo First Nations adoptee, adopted into a white family.

Rowan

i'm a 27 year old adoptee. and a twin.

Flying Monkey #073177

I am a 31 year old reunited, adult adoptee as well as a first mom in a slammed-the-eff-shut "open" adoption.

Mom to Foster Children

I am a (not yet 40 year old) Adoptive Parent.

Heather Leigh

I am an AP. We adopted a distant cousin to my two bio kids from Foster Care when he was 8 years old.

I am also providing relative care for my two nieces. They are 5 & 3. It is nice to have girls in the home so I don't feel out numbered, but I am happy that they should be returning home to my sister in a couple of months!

I was also pressured to give up my first son because I was only 18 and unmarried when I had him. I actually had Social Workers from the adoption agency show up after I gave birth. (Sent by his Grandparents on his Dad's side) Thankfully, my Mom was there and kicked them out of my room. One of the few times I heard my Mom use the F-word... And she used it quite a bit that day!!

BLW_KAM

I'm an AP whose parents were making me approximately the same time as JFK's inauguration. (You do the math ;-)

Dreamweaver ILF posse 2009

I'm a 39 yr old adoptee. Adopted at 2 days old.

I'm also a bmom to a 22 year old son

kidmindi

I'm both! I wonder how many of us hold more than one place on the tirad?

Torrejon

I was adopted before I was 2 months old. Completely closed adoption.

Nurse Autumn Intactivist NFP

Actually, I am not part of the triad, I have never claimed to know how any of them feel. BUT!, I am a mother, I am a daughter, and the thought of living my life without my son or my mother is NOT ok with me. The thought of anyone being ripped from their heritage so the adoption industry can make money and AP's can have a child at the expense of a family is NOT ok with me. So while I may not know how they feel first hand, I can only imagine the pain and confusion that is inflicted needlessly on the child and his natural parents, and I want to stop that however I can

Jeff

I'm a 27 y/o adoptee. :)

Gaia Raain II

Prospective adoptive parent.

divagirrrl05

adopted parents age 39 and 46. adopted four out of foster care. now 16, 5, 3, 3.

Randy B

I'm an adoptee and a 2 x adoptive parent. 45 and holding.

I Love A Child With Autism!!!

I am a 31 year old adoptive parent to two beautiful girls, I am also the biological mother of one lovely little girl and the step mother of two teens.

Laurel J

I'm a baby scoop era adoptee

....who currently has "Help help here come the bears!" running through her head. (-:

DevonChaos

30 y/o adoptee with 5 kids, all natural.

foster parent and soon to be adoptive parent

BOTZ

Forget the natural parents, did we? I'm not sure "others of interest" really covers them -- since NONE of us would BE involved in adoption without them...so perhaps you should give a little more thought to including those who made both my life and your parenthood possible.

Having said that...36 y.o. woman, adopted at under one month. Reunited for 4+ years with both natural parents. Have NO contact with a-parents or older a-family siblings (one of whom is "golden girl" the miracle-baby bio-child of the a-parents).

gypsywinter

I am a 62 yr old natural mother who is in reunion 9 years. I also birthed and raised 3 more children into adulthood, after my newborn baby was lost to adoption.

Kazi

34 year old mom of a beautiful daughter from China and gorgeous son from foster care.

â™¥Charlie loves Lucasâ™¥

I am 27 yo adopted in Europe from European family.
I had problems with my open adoption because the donors always begging for money and work

Darcy

I am a 32 year old adoptee and adoptive parent.

LovetheLORDfirst

I'm preparing to be a foster-to-adopt or just adoptive parent. I started wanting to when my first child was a baby, but then came along a divorce... So now, 6 years later, here I am.

After doing the research, I found out that my aunt (My parents had me very, very late in life, so many of my relatives are dead or old and in poor health.) fostered hundreds of children, one of which was disabled and she adopted. She (adopted girl) is in her 40s and still lives with them.

Also, my next-door neighbor is a foster-to-adopt parent, my brother-in-law/ sister-in-law have two adopted daughters, and I have had several close relations to people who happened to be adopted.

God bless you, AP! Like your avatar!

furfur

I am a 32 year old AP to a terrific three year old with another adoption pending.

AdoreHim

I am 50 years old, and I am both an adoptee, and an adoptive parent.

Kristy

I'm a 25-year-old adoptee, adopted at 3 weeks of age. I am grateful to my birthmother for giving me the opportunity she gave me - to live a better life than she could provide. I am getting married next summer and we are open to adopting our own children in the future.

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