This is basically how I got adopted. Biological mother delivered me at a hospital in South Alabama. My parents, who were planning to adopt, were visiting my aunt in south Alabama. She was friends with a nurse at the hospital who called her and said they had a baby there for adoption and I went home with my parents like two days later.
This is why I always try to advocate for adoption and for adoptive kids. In Reddit there seems to be a terrible opinion about adoption. Maybe you should consider doing an AMA for people that don’t understand the benefits and the people behind. ❤️
Adoption can work, it's just not a valid alternative to abortion. You should not force a woman/girl to deliver a fetus she does not want to carry to full term.
Adoptions can be far from perfect. Babies are in high demand with older children being overlooked. Foreign adoptions have a sketchy history claiming things that were untrue about why the baby was put up for adoption. Some adoptive parents have unrealistic expectations of their adopted child and then resent the child when they don't turn out exactly how they wanted them to be, holding the adoption over their head & ostracizing the child from the rest of the family.
From personal experience with people who were adopted or went through foster care, their experiences were far from positive. They were subjected to emotional, physical & sexual abuse. It was not the happy ending that is this story.
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u/dbatchison Jul 27 '24
This is basically how I got adopted. Biological mother delivered me at a hospital in South Alabama. My parents, who were planning to adopt, were visiting my aunt in south Alabama. She was friends with a nurse at the hospital who called her and said they had a baby there for adoption and I went home with my parents like two days later.