My husband and I want adopt a baby, we live at Orlando, FL, where and how to start? Advice Please!?
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My husband and I want adopt a baby, we live at Orlando, FL, where and how to start? Advice Please!?
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I have a boy 8 years old already, and all of us are wishing to bring a baby home for give h(im)/(er) all our love!
But we don't know nothing about adoption..
Please Help!
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Well Posseum thanks for the quick answer, but I am not trying to just fill "my needs like a family", that make me look like an egocentric person that I am not, if your words will be true, I will be looking for a cat, or dog to give me fun, I am a mom of one, and I raised when was single, 2 kids of my brother.
Adopting in my opinion is in effect a need of give love, but also a responsible decision of to bring someone to your life, and try your best this little new person gets the better that you can give... (and before you judge me so hard again.. no I am not talking about money)
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grapesgum
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You can search for a baby to bring home to your family on this Florida WEB site.
http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/adoption/search/indexnew.asp
You can search by age, gender, and health. Currently there are no healthy babies available. If you are willing to take a healthy child over the age of 12, there are hundreds. If you are less picky about health, there are thousands.
Let me guess, you want a shiny new baby with no strings attached (i.e., closed adoption) and no health problems. Yes? Then stand in line and start saving the thousands of dollars that you will need to pay an adoption broker. |
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Possum
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Firstly - adoption is about finding a home for a child that really needs one - not about filling your needs as a family.
Sorry.
If you go into adoption with those thoughts - you put a heap of pressure on the child to conform to your views - rather than loving and caring for a child just for who they are.
Babies are VERY hard to come by - there just is far more demand than there are babies available.
Look into foster care - often you can adopt from there - and that is where the children NEED you.
Trying to hope for a troubled pregnant woman to give her child away to a family of strangers is coercive - and should not be done.
Here's some reading to start you on what adoption is really about for the mother and the child - to show you the other view that perhaps you've never even thought about -
http://www.cubirthparents.org/booklet.pdf
And read books written by adult adoptees.
You need to truly understand (or at least try) what adoption is like for the adoptee.
They must lose their entire family and heritage and identity - to fill your needs. Please be aware of those losses. |
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LaraSue
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Contact an agency or an adoption attorney in your area to see how to begin the process. |
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