A cautionary tale
This newspaper story is a good example of why adoption in America has become a less likely option for couples like us. (Sorry about the pop-ups and info boxes on the site)
To summarize, a couple were foster parents to many children, but when they wanted to adopt two little twin boys who were born premature, their County took the boys away from them. The County believed the mother was faking an illness in one of the boys to gain smypathy for herself, but then that little boy died in another foster home. It took a long time still after that for the couple to get to adopt the remaining little boy but only after legal struggles and much pain and heartache.
Is it wrong of us to want to avoid that kind of trouble in our lives and look for a solution that (at least right now) appears simpler and fraught with fewer legal perils? I’ll leave that up to you to decide for yourselves, but I don’t think so. We’ve been through enough, I think.
