Adoption - What is Best?
By tarag4
@tarag4 (16)
United States
October 8, 2007 12:42pm CST
Adoption can be a very complicated thing. Do you think that it is always best to tell your child he/she is adopted? Should parents who put their child up for adoption keep the adoption open, allowing the child the opportunity to make contact with them in the future? Do you know of anyone who is adopted? What is their view on this?
1 response
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
8 Oct 07
I was adopted many years ago. My adoptive parents told me when I was very young. When a child enters school, other children tease and repeat what they've heard from their parents. If I didn't know from my parents in advance, it would have been a horrible experience. So yes, I believe children should be told as soon as they are old enough to understand.
My biological parents were very young and never married. At 15, my mother didn't know what to do except follow the advice of her mother. Both were pregnant at the same time so the choice was to give me up. It was a good choice. Don't believe there was any such thing back in the 1940's as an open adoption but I could be wrong.
I did a search and did find both biological parents. It was a good choice for health purposes. Today I am married with three children and two grandchildren. Life is good!
