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Originally Posted by carnation
Five of our 13 children are adopted. I would certainly do it again if I could--as a matter of fact, we hope to!
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So we can count on being supplied with yet more recruitment stories from the Carnation nation for years to come, right?
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I'm not certain. I'm a long way off from thinking about kids, but I think I'd want to have my own first, and then maybe adopt. If there were problems though, I think I'd rather adopt a child, specifically a baby girl from India. Why? Because baby girls who are put up for adoption in India aren't wanted generally, and they're abandoned by their mothers. At this point in time, my mentality is "why invest the money in trying to have kids in a method that isn't a guaranteed success when there are so many children out there waiting for a loving home?" India because I'm Indian.
Many of my teachers in HS adopted girls while they were in India - my choir teacher, my biology teacher and his wife adopted two, the vice principal and his wife adopted one, and a Mormon family had one girl from India and two boys from Cambodia. Two of my cousins are adopted, and so is my godmother's son, so I've been exposed to it, which I think makes me more receptive to the idea.