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Adoption After Giving Birth
What Makes Couples Decide to Adopt After Having a Baby?
By Teri Brown
Having your own biological child is so important in our society that many people don't understand a couple's decision to adopt after they've had their own children. People can appreciate and even applaud adopting after unsuccessful fertility treatments, but after giving birth to your own baby? Not so much. There are even some adoption agencies who don't work with parents who have already have their own children, preferring to work with couples who are still desperately waiting for a baby, any baby.
"The most common reason is secondary infertility," Groza says. "Even couples who may have had an easy time with a first pregnancy can find problems with conceiving a second time. However, there are also some singles and couples who make a humanitarian decision to adopt. Sometimes they are part of a faith community and feel led or called to adopt, particularly children who are at-risk and/or come from a developing country. There are some not part of a faith community but who see it as part of a social conscious/social justice. They see and read about many children without a family and decide that after having one biological child, they want to adopt and serve humanity."
According to Groza, there are also some women who do not want a repeat performance of the birthing experience. It might be that the pregnancy was very traumatic and they choose not to do it again or they might have an active career and professional life and the timing may not be right for them.
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Re: Adoption After Giving Birth by anonymous on 12/01/2009 08:30AM
Interesting and informative article. I am Kenyan and today (Worlds Aids Day) I read in a newspaper that Kenya has about 2.5million children orphaned by AIDS yet only 61 Kenyans & 31 foreigners have adopted children in the last year. As a Kenyan I know that adopting is almost considered taboo even when one does not have a biological child. I would certainly like to adopt a child in the near future & I know I will face a lot of objections but I know it will be worth it for both my family and our adopted child.