shabadoo
09-01-2004, 11:34 AM
My wife Patsy and I are in the process of adopting an 8-month old girl from the Department of Social Services in Massachusetts. We have had her in our home for two months. She is beyond perfect. She is small for her age, but was not preemie. She is in perfect health and is slightly ahead developmentally. She has a happy personality and is so cute that she stops traffic. We'll be in Babies R Us and people will walk by a line of babies and ignore them, but stop dead in their tracks when they see little Rosa!
It's looking as good as it can look for the adoption becoming final next month.
We are not wealthy people. We work in social service-type jobs and both of us have been involved in the past with DSS as a part of our work, which is how we learned about their adoption program.
But we didn't go the DSS route because it doesn't cost anything--though to be fair, we could not have afforded to go through a private agency. We went this way because we encountered these children and heard their stories daily. We found out a year ago that we could not have children of our own, and while the prospect of adoption filled me with anxiety, as I look back, my anxiety was unecessary.
I don't want to sound like an ad, but I hope that others will consider this route when thinking of adoption. There are risks, but there are also advantages over private adoption.
Our story may be atypical as far as the low risk and the unusual cuteness thing, but I hope that our success will inspire others to consider this option.
--Al
Boston, MA
It's looking as good as it can look for the adoption becoming final next month.
We are not wealthy people. We work in social service-type jobs and both of us have been involved in the past with DSS as a part of our work, which is how we learned about their adoption program.
But we didn't go the DSS route because it doesn't cost anything--though to be fair, we could not have afforded to go through a private agency. We went this way because we encountered these children and heard their stories daily. We found out a year ago that we could not have children of our own, and while the prospect of adoption filled me with anxiety, as I look back, my anxiety was unecessary.
I don't want to sound like an ad, but I hope that others will consider this route when thinking of adoption. There are risks, but there are also advantages over private adoption.
Our story may be atypical as far as the low risk and the unusual cuteness thing, but I hope that our success will inspire others to consider this option.
--Al
Boston, MA