A lot of people don't want to raise "someone else's child" doesn't make sense to me, but one of the girls in my girl scout troop (we were 17) said that she could never adopt for that reason and I was blown away.
Wow. The closest I've ever been to any birth other than my own was the time the dog my grandmother was fostering had puppies. It was a very unusual experience for all concerned, because we're pretty fanatically spay/neuter. I'm kind of terrified I'd do what my dad did when he was at births and go white as a sheet and then have to convince the docs (or midwives, or EMTs) I don't need to be hospitalized.
We were actually having a terrible time trying to find a non-Christian adoption agency for when the time comes, being as I'm a bisexual Jew, and they likely wouldn't have anything to do with me, when a secular lesbian woman sets up right down the street from my mom's work. Obviously it's fate.
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Date: 2010-09-06 04:09 am (UTC)Wow. The closest I've ever been to any birth other than my own was the time the dog my grandmother was fostering had puppies. It was a very unusual experience for all concerned, because we're pretty fanatically spay/neuter. I'm kind of terrified I'd do what my dad did when he was at births and go white as a sheet and then have to convince the docs (or midwives, or EMTs) I don't need to be hospitalized.
We were actually having a terrible time trying to find a non-Christian adoption agency for when the time comes, being as I'm a bisexual Jew, and they likely wouldn't have anything to do with me, when a secular lesbian woman sets up right down the street from my mom's work. Obviously it's fate.