| Adoption is an old and worthy deed. Today more and | | | | family that is not their biological family. The child can |
| more people are adoption children for a variety of | | | | suffer feelings of rejection that you must be willing |
| reasons; they can not have children of their own, | | | | to deal with. Today also many adoptive children as |
| they want to extend their present family, they want | | | | they get older want to go in search of their birth |
| to give a child in need a good home. Whatever the | | | | parents are you prepared for this if they were to |
| reason it is a good thing to do. In this article we will | | | | choose this path. |
| try to look at whether this is a good idea for you. | | | | Third, if you have given birth to children, how will |
| First, are you emotionally, financially and physically | | | | they feel about having an adoptive child come into |
| able to care for a child. Sometimes wanting is just | | | | their home. |
| not enough. As good as your intentions may be, you | | | | Lastly, if you are an older adoptive parent you must |
| really need to meet the above criteria. This will be a | | | | be prepared for health issues you could have in the |
| life long challenge that you are taking on. | | | | future and how will you take care of the child. Also |
| Secondly, are you prepared to cope with some of | | | | you must be prepared with health issues that the |
| the issues that go with adopting a child. Sometimes | | | | adoptive child could have. Remember they come |
| adopted children have of being raised by another | | | | from an entirely different gene pool than you do. |