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[quote=Anonymous]Any child you adopt will have to deal with the fact that his or her parents could not/chose not to/were not allowed to parent. Many will have experienced traumas before or after leaving their parents' care. Coming to a new country, a new culture, or a new family in itself can be hard. Add this to the fact that addiction and mental health/intellectual disabilities can be one of the reasons kids go into foster parents or their parents choose adoption.

You don't know how resilient a kid you'll get, what tendencies they'll inherit, what they were exposed to, or how they'll feel about being adopted. Many feelings and conditions don't happen until puberty or later.

There is no stock of healthy non-traumatized babies and toddlers: not for private domestic adoption, international adoption, or adoption from foster care (where there are almost no legally free young children at all--so you either need to foster with the plan that the child will return to biological relatives, or adopt a child with severe special needs or a large sibling group. One possible exception may be if you are Native American and can accept children through ICWA).[/quote]

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