Has rebellion ever led somebody to adoption? Just curious cause yesterday...
Well I hate how everyone looks at adoption as a last resort. They keep it on the back burner as "well there's always adoption", and that frustrates me. Part of me wants to adopt just to spite those people.
Yesterday I was telling one of Blakely's therapist about my blogger friend who's raising funds for adoption. And amongst the conversation I said that it's giving me ideas for when we start raising funds. And you know what she told me? I got the comment about how young we are. Ya know, about how we still have time to have our own. I almost snapped... oops. I told her that we could adopt now and have a kid when we've been married for 10 years. And she was like, yeah that's true. And then she tries telling me to consider fostering.
Why is it when I bring up adoption people usually tell me things like:
- Have you and Jared been tested to see why you haven't had any?
- You're so young... just be patient... it'll happen...
- Have you considered fostering?
- Jared hasn't had any testing done. All I've had done is blood tests, all of which came back normal. I truly feel in my gut that we would go through all the testing and be told they have no idea why we haven't conceived. So I suppose it's hard to feel motivated to spend money on testing when I feel it wouldn't do any good.
- Yes we're young! I know that! And do you see how many teenagers get pregnant? We've been married over 4 years and nothing has happened. Who's to say anything ever will? Those people who had a surprise kid after 15 years of marriage, they were young once too. Sure I might still have a kid of my own later... But what if God doesn't give me one until I'm 39 like he did my aunt? I could raise an adopted child in the mean time. I want kids while I'm young. While. I'm. Young. Is that so hard to fathom?
- Far as being foster parents... I feel Jared and I are too young to be foster parents. Half of the people we meet think we're 16 still. I just don't feel we'd get much respect from children at our age. Maybe we'll foster when we're older. Oh and another thing about fostering.... I want a child who stays my child!!! I'm used to being a substitute mom, but that's not what I want to be forever.
Anyways.... yeah...