I am about to start stage 1 of the adoption process and most of the time I feel positive about it. That is, until I start reading - books, articles, blogs, tweets - all make adoption sound very hard work, very high risk and potentially dangerous.
Now I'm not expecting it to be easy but stories of people having to give up work, sell their homes and move to manage financially, being physically and verbally abused (even to the extent of bring fearful that they will be stabbed), behavioural issues, education issues, health issues, substance abuse issues...the list goes on.
I know most children eligible for adoption will come from homes where they've suffered trauma and I don't expect parenting, let alone being a single parent of an adopted child, to be easy but I can't help being scared off by what I read.
Are these typical experiences or worst case scenarios? I can handle the latter but am really starting to question whether I can knowingly jump into the former. Grateful to hear experiences of those who've taken the plunge.
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OnTheJourney · 06/07/2019 22:51
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