Adoption Experience

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The Feeling One Experiences with adoption. This is an amazing article by Gina Shaw call “This Is What Adoption Feels Like.” She does a great view over these families and how the adoption process went with individual family. Separate feelings not one adoption goes the exact way, just as not every pregnancy is the same. The feelings, the complex of the process of adopting it’s all very different in each home. She gives information on how five families experience was with their adoptions, and it’s not only people who adopted a kid but gave a child up for adoption. What they had to go through to make that heart wrenching decision. This article is very helpful to help you with your decision when it comes to adoption, if that maybe you adopting or even how it is when you give your precious child up. She…show more content…
She discusses briefly about three different families and part of their stories, why they chose adoption, and how they adoptions are all different. One is because they had miscarriages, and that is an open adoption so the child is still in touch with his biological family, another because they just felt they needed to adopt, and other one was a single lady who realized just because she is not married does not mean she could not have a child so she chose to adopt. See not one is the same story, they may have similarities, but not one is the exact same. What are some of the questions people ask when they decide to adopt is what she than discusses in her article. “Why do I want to adopt?” “Can I handle an open adoption?” “What kind of child am I ready to adopt?” “Have I come to terms with my infertility?” “Can I handle being "different" from other families?” than she gives short answers for these questions. Just giving an idea of the things you need to thing about before you make your chose. She gives the pro’s and cons of each type of adoption, and the different types of
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