"Hi Rachael, Thank you for your posts on the longer-term effects of adoption! They have helped to shape my hubby's and my thinking on adoption and challenge us now to work to help families stay together -- and to understand foster parenting more now as a means of serving and providing for the needs of families and children who will hopefully be reunited. Your posts also challenge us to keep our baby even though I am worried about DH and me running into financial challenges that, if severe enough, could result in us losing our home in a year or so. Were it not for folks like you posting these articles and writing from your heart, I'd feel a lot more lost. Thank you for helping to educate folks like me. Thank you for helping give worried and confused moms like me hope, clarity and a voice in a sea of pro-adoption voices. = )"
Thank you for your posts on adoption. I am 28, pregnant and just left my boyfriend who was becoming increasingly abusive. I couldn't bring myself to abort, and now I am faced w being a single mother or adoption. It's posts like yours that are helping me make a decision. The pregnancy has been hell bc of my relationship, but the thought of "giving her away" seems unconscionable. When I am 46 she will be raised. I plan to have one child at this point. ....I realized too late how horrible an option adoption would be...I can't picture "giving her up", but I am dreading the life that lays before me. Got to scrape myself off the pavement and start working...."
That makes 3 moms that I have convinced them that keeping their child is what is best. Keeping families intact. Unfortunately the other post was deleted so I can not get the actual quote of the mother saying that she has chosen to keep her baby. But I wish I could have had it.
I'm going to start keeping track right here.
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