"You will remain in foster care until the age of 18 or until your mother can give up drugs."
Those are the words that made me realize that my life had taken a change for the worse. I was nine years old when my siblings and I were placed into foster care. We had been to three different homes in the course of four days and somehow I knew this would be the deciding factor that would differentiate me from "normal ' kids with "normal" lives. Carolyn and Louis Corbin were the names of the foster parents that decided to keep us without a "must return to owner" date. March of 1996, we enter their home with the expectations of leaving within the next couple of days. However, when I asked Mrs. Corbin what should I address her as and she responded "mom," I then knew that we have found the closest thing to having parents. My foster parents were the only family I knew at the time with exception of my biological mother, maternal grandmother, her kids and my …show more content…
I felt undefeated and ready to take on any obstacle thrown my way because I successfully completed a semester without any interruptions. However, during that same month, received some news that changed my life. On June 23, 2012, I found out I was going to be a mother. Overwhelmed with this information, I began to stress and worry about what type of mother I would be if I had nothing. I was a struggling college student barely maintaining my own life not to mention I don’t know how to be a parent, what do I do? The psychological damage from my parents abandonment weighed so heavy on me mentally that I contemplated on aborting my child solely on the basis that I thought I would be the same type of parent. However, my resilient nature stepped in and shut down all the thoughts and doubts I had about being a mother. Today my son is 3 years old and he has two loving parents that would die before allowing him to suffer from unwontedness, lonesome or
Those are the words that made me realize that my life had taken a change for the worse. I was nine years old when my siblings and I were placed into foster care. We had been to three different homes in the course of four days and somehow I knew this would be the deciding factor that would differentiate me from "normal ' kids with "normal" lives. Carolyn and Louis Corbin were the names of the foster parents that decided to keep us without a "must return to owner" date. March of 1996, we enter their home with the expectations of leaving within the next couple of days. However, when I asked Mrs. Corbin what should I address her as and she responded "mom," I then knew that we have found the closest thing to having parents. My foster parents were the only family I knew at the time with exception of my biological mother, maternal grandmother, her kids and my …show more content…
I felt undefeated and ready to take on any obstacle thrown my way because I successfully completed a semester without any interruptions. However, during that same month, received some news that changed my life. On June 23, 2012, I found out I was going to be a mother. Overwhelmed with this information, I began to stress and worry about what type of mother I would be if I had nothing. I was a struggling college student barely maintaining my own life not to mention I don’t know how to be a parent, what do I do? The psychological damage from my parents abandonment weighed so heavy on me mentally that I contemplated on aborting my child solely on the basis that I thought I would be the same type of parent. However, my resilient nature stepped in and shut down all the thoughts and doubts I had about being a mother. Today my son is 3 years old and he has two loving parents that would die before allowing him to suffer from unwontedness, lonesome or