Would you believe that I’m too young?
At the ripe age of 27 (three weeks til 28!), I am being told that I may be considered too young to adopt children. I know for a fact that we’re too young to adopt from China and it hurts to think that we should wait til we’re in our thirties. It’ll be like having a second family since Sam will be 14 and Zack will be 10 when I hit 30. Figure in the time it takes to go through an adoption from start to finish and Sam could very well be finishing up high school before we had a child. What do you do in a situation like that? I’ve seen with my younger sisters that having children too far apart makes them disconnected in ways that aren’t fixable. I can tell you that my sisters and I are definitely in different stages of life right now. Maybe it won’t be so much of a big deal when we’re adults, but currently, the age gap sucks. Guess I should get my mom’s opinion since she’s the oldest of 9 children and there is quite an age gap between her and the youngest one.
What would y’all do? Go for the whole adoption thing or just hang it up and wait for the grandchildren?
November 30th, 2006 at 12:28 am
What about Fostering for now, with the choose of in a few years being able to adopt them??