Jordan: Thank you for sharing your experience as well. We've been looking into the possibility of private adoption as well. There are so many options. I don't know where to even start! I suppose asking questions on forums, in person, and reading books, doing research, will give me a better idea of which direction to go. Thank you again.
Susan: Thank you for sharing your experience
mrsashleybell: I'm sorry to hear they're doing that
I worry about my childhood interfering with adoption. I was not molested, but I was raised in unfit conditions (poverty, parents doing drugs, mother had alcoholic abusive boy friends, mother was never there, father was abusive, father even kidnapped me during the custody battle and skipped state... pretty much a whole range of traumatizing crap.) It didn't affect me like it does some people though. I managed to come out of my childhood as a well adjusted adult... but I know that they look at these things, and I worry how it may affect me. I mean, I know how my childhood touched me, it made me strong. Because of my childhood I don't drink, I never did drugs, I went to college, I matured fast... I know some people with childhoods like mine don't come out as strong. And most people lump all of us together into one pile, they assume we are like the majority without actually taking the time to see how far we've come from that time. I hate those assumptions. I didn't try so hard to have a better life just to be treated as if I hadn't.
Sorry, I'm rambling. But, it is definitely a big fear of mine.
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