I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.
I am an adoptive parent. My wife and I adopted our daughter nine years ago. She was born in China. We have been her parents since she was nine and a half months old, and we don't know very much about her life before we first took her into our arms.
What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.
I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.
I want my kids to understand that when family needs something, I'm there. And, on a different note, all three of my kids are adopted.
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.
As an adopted kid, it means a lot when I hear women say, 'I don't want kids.' I have a lot of respect for them.
There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.
I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.
Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
