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Adopting in middle age, after your own children are teenagers.

  • 01-04-2024 7:59pm
    #1
    Baroque
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭


    Hi,

    We always wanted to do this, especially as even though we have been blessed with children of our own, Mother Nature stepped in and said no more… We always said we would adopt but were set back in our plans.

    What drawbacks/pitfalls/advice would anyone be willing to share with us about their adoption journey later in life? We are 50+57 and have 3 teenage children.



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  • #2
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    Have you thought about fostering instead?

    What country are you thinking of adopting from?



  • #3
    the14thwarrior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭the14thwarrior


    foster instead. by the time an adoption (if you get one at your age and likely from a foreign country) goes through one of you will be in their sixties. Personally feel you are too old. your health could go, your energy will go, your own children will need to be considered (they have a whole life ahead of them) and your adoption child will be alone; looking after you in your later years?

    plenty of children need fostering parents



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