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Post by erzulie on Aug 8, 2006 9:48:33 GMT -5
The other night I was doing some research on adopting children from Vietnam for a story I'm planning to write. I found this lovely website with information about this, and then I got sidetracked by the stories on the website. There is a whole page of stories from people who adopted their children from Vietnam, and they are such beautiful stories! It really made me happy because I want to adopt children some day so I guess these stories just make me all warm and fuzzy inside. I wanted to post a link on here in case these stories might cheer other people up, especially those of you who are considering adoption, or who might consider adoption, or who are afraid to consider adoption because it's "just not the same." No, it's not the same as giving birth. The people who told these stories missed out on the joys (and pains) of pregnancy. But they also experienced a lot of exciting emotions that people who give birth never get to have. The waiting, the travelling, the realization that you are rescuing someone from spending a lifetime in an overcrowded orphanage in a poor country--you'll only experience that if you adopt internationally (though I'm by no means saying this is better than domestic adoption, it's just what I happened to be researching that night). The happiness they described, however, is in fact the same as the happiness parents feel after giving birth. In the end I don't think one manner of having children is better than the other, although society tries to make us think conception is the only road to happiness. Anyway, here is a link to the stories. I hope you will enjoy them: adoptvietnam.org/adoption/stories.htm
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Post by denna on Aug 20, 2006 22:33:46 GMT -5
hi,
thanks. will look into it when i'm ready. i think agelina jolie has a vietname boy-maddox
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Post by erzulie on Aug 21, 2006 9:48:07 GMT -5
I've heard about that...I don't feel so happy for her son. It might have been out of the frying pan into the fire for him.
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Post by Hillary on Sept 8, 2006 21:19:14 GMT -5
If I have to adopt I think that I would adopt russian child, After my first surgery(I was a wee bit emotional) and this 1 hour program about this Toronto couple that adopted twin girls, It showed the way that all these orphans live and once they turn 18 the men usually end up in jail and the woman prostitutes and there are hundreds of orphans. So this couple started this summer camp for all ages for how many orphans ebery summer for 2 weeks and they are so happy when they go there, when they get there they get clothes and toys it's alot of fun for them, can you imagine all my emotions I think I cried a good chunk through it. But if I have to adopt we hopefully will adopt a Russian child, I think I would even be ok with adopting a child that is a little older.
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Post by erzulie on Sept 8, 2006 22:08:43 GMT -5
When I was a teenager I saw something on the news about the terrible state of Russian orphanages, and I got it into my head that I would like to adopt a Russian child. Now I don't have a specific idea in my head of where I would like to adopt a child from, I just figure we will make a decision when the time comes.
Speaking of Russian children though, when I used to work at a day care there was a couple there who had adopted their first child from Russia. I'm not sure how old she was when they adopted her--I think about a year old. Anyway when they first brought her home she didn't understand affection at all, because she wasn't getting any of that in the orphanage! It makes me sad when I think about how bad things are for those kids. That's why it always makes me feel happy to read about people who rescue them from those places!
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