Absolutely correct! It does take a great deal of perseverance, courage and strength of character to be able to raise an adopted child…but I think that once you have them in your care you don’t see them as “someone else’s”. They are your very own.
I don’t believe that anyone said it’s an extreme. Quite the contrary in fact. It is every person’s right to explore every possible avenue to have a biological child. My question was, how long would you continue to explore and try before you decided that it was enough and your desire to have a child in your life was greater than your desire to produce one yourself.
been there, done that and totally agree.
hubby and I have had this conversation numerous times and there are a number of things that we agree to disagree upon.
and then there are other members of our family who are continuing to try the fertility treatments/methods because they simply do not feel that adoption is an option for them…
certainly everything is not black and white…especially in such matters.
thanks for the sensitive post…you did a great job of summing things up!