On any given day, there are approximately 415,000 children in foster care in the United States. One of out five of those kids will become homeless, less than three percent will earn a college degree, and seventy-one percent of young women will be pregnant by age twenty-one. In 2004, I was lucky enough to receive a new family, a set of beginner parents. They didn’t know everything but at least they wanted me and did whatever it took to have me.
Being adopted, you definitely question yourself and your biological family, a lot. There are times you can feel abandoned, unwanted, like the mistake the kids in the fourth grade made fun of you for. You’ll wonder if your parents really loved you. You’ll wonder why they didn’t keep you or make the
Being adopted, you definitely question yourself and your biological family, a lot. There are times you can feel abandoned, unwanted, like the mistake the kids in the fourth grade made fun of you for. You’ll wonder if your parents really loved you. You’ll wonder why they didn’t keep you or make the