Adoption and Foster Care

I was in foster care for a few nights because my parents were both drug addicts. Then my grand mother came and got me and my father got better and I hope to live with him soon. The people I got for the few nights were nice, but I don't want to go back to it.

There is a lot of weird adoption/baby selling things in my family on my mom's side. My nonny on my moms side and papa on my mom's side split up and my nonny didn't have enough money for my mom so she sold my mom to this family who were really nice. But then my grandfather came back and didn't know where the baby was and said that if my nonny could get my mom back then he would go back to her so she convinced my mom's cousin who was 14 and pregnant to give her baby to this family and she got my mom back by trading. Then when my mom was 15 she told this kid who she switched with that he was adpted and he didn't know and all hell broke lose and his adoptive mom ended up dying.

Then when my older sister was three, my nonny was looking after her and didn't have enough money to pay for her so she sold her to this french couple who couldn't have kids and then had to get her back because things were getting suspicious.

I don't really know my stance on adoption, just baby selling.

Either way there are a lot of good people who are into foster care and adoption and there are a lot of bad people. If you're lucky, you get the good ones. Although I don't think that's how it should be.

My mom was in foster care since she was about 2. It's not foster care in the way most people think of it though. It's like she was adopted, but it was never official. They are my family. I don't know my mom's birth parents. My mom barely did too. She stopped seeing her when she was 9.
I'm glad for foster care because without it, who knows what would have happened my mom with her screwed up mother. And I wouldn't have my family, my grandma and uncles and aunt and cousins.
But it depends, my mom's sister was also with them but she is completely messed up now too. It's individual. And of course if you land with a bad family. It always makes me feel so horrible, the thought of someone leaving, being taken, left behind from an obviously horrible place to go to another, but with people you don't know.
I've always thrown around the idea of adopting myself. I think I will, maybe, eventually. Not for the normal, nice reasons people have, but because there's already too many people on the planet. :shifty

My mum was adopted, I found out about 4 years ago. It was quite a shock, well for me it was. But my love my Grandad and late Grandma exactly the same as before. :). I don't want to have kids when I'm older, but I'd like to adopt a few babies :D.

I'd adopt a child.
Probably from the US or the UK. I'd want to do this because although it's nice to have you're own flesh and blood, there's too many kids out there needing a good home.

my mom died when i was 6 and i was staying with one of my mom's friends because my dad bailed. my bio family is a total bitches bout it cuz they want me but dont want to pay for me or whatever...i call my adoptive parents mom and dad..i dont get along with my mom AT ALL...we are always fighting and now that im 18 im always fighting with my dad and its annoying

I plan to have my own children. I like adoption and the concept, but I don't think it's right for me. I'm aware of the difficulties that can come with an adopted child and since my children will most likely have mental difficulties of their own, I think it best not to attempt to bring more into the home.

However, my mother and aunt are both adopted and two of my friends in school were adopted as well. My dad was adopted by his stepfather.

I was adopted by my birth mom's sister (my aunt) because my birth mom had a drug addiction and couldn't look after me. I still live with my adoptive mom, but I keep in touch with my birth parents. I don't see my birth mom often, but my birth father comes to MD to visit my brother and I at least every other month.

I knew someone in high school who had been adopted. She was originally from Russia and she was adopted by American parents. She told me she was adopted because both of her parents were drug addicts and couldn't look after her like she needed. She told me she was happy with her adopted family and considered them her real family.

I've always been interested in adopting children and I'd love to do it someday.