Do you know any people that were adopted?

hello maxima, when i was still single i adopted a boy..now he is 11yrs old and was staying at my sister..it was nice to have an adopted..

Hi maximax8, Firstly i was going through my friends discussions and saw that u r going to South africa soon. I wish u safe journey and hope u have a wonderful time there. Secondly I know a boy who was adopted by a couple in our colony. That boy is a nice lad and as far as i know he gets along well with his family. The only problem is when a child grows up say in his tten ages he face a lot of problems from our society. I think its the responsibility of their parents to make him understand that they r no less than his real parents as they took every pain possible to raise him/her. I also think that adoption is a very graceful thing to do. A kid needs a mother and a dad more than anything else in the world. Cheers, Tutul

i know about very few. there is a little boy i know about who is adopted. As the couple could not conceive, they adopted the baby. its a bonny boy.

All three of my dad's sister's kids were adopted and they could not have turned out any better than if they were her 'own' kids. Yes, the first one was very hard to get but after that the second was easier and then the third was easier still. Great question Thanks Zelo

My sister and I were adopted and I have an adopted niece. My son-in-law was also adopted.

My Husabdn cousin is adopted and it is quite strange how she actually looks very much like her adoptive mother! In fact the first time I met her years back before I realised she was adopted I actually commented on how much alike they were! I guess that is a compliment for her and makes her feel even closer to her mum! x

Well I was adopted and it wasnt a good thing..My ex (the father of my two older kids) was also adopted as was quite a few ppl I grew up with..for many ppl being adopted turned out to be a great thing...In my case however it would have been better if I'd NOT been adopted...

I was adopted. But not exactly officially so I am not that sure about the adoption process in my country. I know that my own adoption was a mix of blessings and few small not so positive things that in the whole make me think about adoption as a good thing. I had a wonderful adoptive family, a wonderful life and as a bonus the fact that I knew the truth from the beginning. I know a few people that were adopted as well. But not that many.

Hi maximax8! Yes, I know some couples who have adopted babies and they have raised them very well. I also happened to know some girls from school when I was still studying that were adopted. A few of them turned against their parents when they learned they were adopted but majority of those adopted children I knew turned out successful, happy and contented. Adoption here in our country have strict procedures and they do investigations on backgrounds of the families who are applying to adopt children. But I heard some people who go under the table to speed up the process. I just don't know if that is really true. Take care and have a nice day! lovelots..faith210

I am adopted and so are my younger brothers. My mom was unable to have children so she and my dad decided to adopt three children. Have a nice evening

i have friends who were adopted. i think being adopted is quite not easy especially dealing with the family members who do not accept you being part of the family. i know a friend who's in a situation like that.

Adoption is another way that show to us: good people still exist. I know a friend, and the mother of this friend of mine is going to adopt a child . It is not that this mother can not have a child, she can actually. But she divorced from the husband, and now lives alone, so...pregnancy without marriage is not normal situation: so she decided to adopt a child. So she will become `mother` once again, will raise and tale care about baby, and this baby will obtain a new family and probably: good future. Concerning human-related relationships in my country: everything has gone totally wrong. We lost our respect to elders, we don`t love children so much, and marriages come-and-go like seasons: partners don`t have the knowledge of how to take care of their relationship forever. Adoption is not very popular in my country, as I said previously: everything has gone totally wrong. But there are some good exceptions. Yes, I do know a person who grew up in a family that was not her`s. Even I know two woman who grew up as adopted children. They got proper education, and with proper education I mean: education about family and relationships, and taking care of people that You love. One of them even gaved birth to children 2 years ago, and I can tell You: SHE IS THE BEST MOTHER I HAVE SEEN SO FAR. She loves and adores her`s baby, and would never be able to give children away. Also her parents `dropped` her, she obtained new family, and grew up as a very good person. I support baby adoption. Even I think that government should somehow stimulate citizens to take care for those babies who were left from their real parents. Because moral and ethical things are becoming worse and worse with every year, and when those thousands of children will grow up (without knowing what does it mean- to have a family)...Okey, enough with this one!

Hi maximax8! I know of many people who are adopted. The adoptive mtoher had recently got married and hadn't had a baby yet. They adopted a baby from a lady who got pregnant by a man when her husband was in prison. I can't say that's it's easy process in the my country to adopt a baby in my country because i don't know much about the process. Anyway, the mother was really lucky to have adopted that baby because she later on had an operation on her ovary which hinders her having a baby.

Yes both of my brothers have adopted boys who are now grown up .. I think its great if you have a loving stable home to offer it to a child ..

We adopted our sons when they were three months old, I gave up a baby for adoption when I was seventeen, the minister of a church in our city who is now taking an upgrade course at a seminary in the States adopted their oldest son. So far that is all the adoption I know about personally. There are probably others but our sons look so much like me, it is scary (do you really want to grow up and get a double chin and gain a lot of weight when you get to be middle aged?(

Three of my cousins were adopted. My dad's oldest brother could not have children because of a health condition his wife had. So they first adopted a boy, and then a couple years later they adopted a girl. I also have a younger cousin who was not able to have children, so she and her husband adopted a three year old boy. He is my second cousin. He is seventeen now and a really nice kid.

i have neighbor i know. she adopted a boy from fresh born and now he is 9 yrs old and still dont know his real mom but somehow he likes it because he is spoiled and what i have known in germany you cant adopt a child if you dont have money and no proper house to live.

I also think that adoption is a great process especially here in America. There are many wonderful agencies out there to help those that want children of their own. Children need love in their lives and if someone is willing to take on being a parent to them then that is the greatest thing of all. I have known a couple of people that were adopted.

My cousin was adopted at a young age and I forgot about it until we were both adults and I was talking to him about our heritage. He said, "your heritage, you mean." I said, "well ours.. we're both half Polish.." And he said, "Not me, I'm adopted." I then remembered he was adopted and we had a discussion about how he never felt truly a part of the family, though we in the family clearly thought him blood, or at least I did. Technically I was adopted after my parents were divorced. Several years into my mom's second marriage her husband, who was already my legal guardian, adopted us for reasons still unclear to me. I never considered him my father and always referred to him by his name, not by "father" or "dad". Now they're divorced and my ex-stepdad is still my legal father and the legal grandfather of my children, and so on for eternity even though I have no emotional or biological connection with him. I've considered changing my name back to that of my biological father since I always maintained a stronger emotional connection with him but the logicstics and expense of doing so don't seem worth the effort, at least not yet.

In India it was happening in high rate when compare to other countries. Now there are many trust and hostels for the adoption around india. I accept your thought and feelings towards adoption. Thanks.