Adoption: part 4 november is national adoption m..

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Adoption: part 4 november is national adoption month. i just want to personally thank all the parents out there that have adopted and have given a child or children a loving, caring , amazing family . i myself am adopted and i know first hand that it takes alot of heart and faith to adopt. that is what really warms my heart to see all of these couples adopting and loving the child /children like they were their own flesh and blood . God did say in "Matthew 18:5 whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcome me" he is telling us to love and care for his child / children and love them with everything we have the same way we love our God the heavenly father. the parents have to give up alot / put aside alot to take care of their child/ children . they spend their time lifting their child/ children from rock bottom , healing a any wounds , fixing broken hearts ; putting a smile on their faces , rocking them to sleep, nursing them back to health , saving them from their abusers and their bulliers. i am very thankfull that their are these amazing couple out there giving a child / children a second chance at #life .. <3 rj

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Religion aside, I totally agree. For whatever reason Scotland has moved from adopting children to fostering and it breaks my heart to see kids growing up and being moved from one temporary family to the next. I don't understand it at all ð

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@Burrfoot I suspect money may partly be behind that. My sister has fostered for years, & the child she has at present has been with her for 6yrs now. His previous foster carers were clearly only in it for the money, & he had a pretty rough time there. But here's the thing-despite his birth mother rarely seeing him (mainly because she doesn't bother turning up for supervised contact) he's turned down my sisters offer to adopt him, for fear that he'll upset his mum. Apparently that's quite common, as part of the child clings to the hope, that one day things will be 'normal' & they'll be reunited & live with their birth family. It can often be heartbreaking to observe ð I recognise this may not apply in all cases, but this has been my sisters experience for the last ten years or so. @ckahn I understand, is well versed on this subject ð

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Parents are brilliant. Well said. I don't think God meant what you thought he meant though.

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@blindsilence God did mean every word

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Yeah, there must be many reasons it went that way, I'm guessing fostering is paid but once the child is adopted the money stops? I remember rowing up and knew quite a few adopted friends, but not so much now. Is it harder to do now? This post coincided with me spending my night shift last. Ought looking for a runaway foster kid. She eventually turned up at her gran's, no SWD have taken decision gran is too old ð

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@Fly10 you'd think I would know to tag a comment by now.. ð

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