Hi,
We are almost finished our home visits and our social worker has started asking us about the child we would like to adopt. It's all very exciting. When we first started out in the process we didn't mind if we wanted a boy or a girl. The further we got into the process we started speaking about what we would do with our little one, places we would go etc we noticed that every time we spoke about a child it was always her or she. So we took that as a sign that it must be a girl we would like and when asked we told our social worker just what I have written. This was not good enough for our social worker. She wants to know the reason behind it, why we prefer to adopt a girl. We explained that it goes no deeper than what we have said but she said that she needs more. I suppose my question is have any of you specified a gender and was this accepted with little questions or did you have to go into depth on why you want that specific gender? If so what were your reasons for wanting that gender? Im almost feeling bad because we have chosen a specific gender but I shouldn't be. As adoptive parents we have very little say or control within the approval process so I suppose it's nice to have the choice about something? Thanks very much in advance x
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Heff4lump · 29/09/2018 23:26
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