has anyone here ever adopted?

[cougjunkie]

About 5 years after my wife was adopted her mom was putting the dress she came here in away in a cedar chest for her when she got older and her mom found a flap sewn inside the dress and she opened it and there was a picture of my wife as a 2 year old holding a baby girl and on the back it said in spanish my wifes birth name (her parents changed it when she was adopted) and then said another name, at the bottom it said they were sisters.

So the only thing my wife ever wonders about is her little sister. She knows it was for the best, but sometimes she said she thinks about it. She also has 4 sisters and 1 brother that were adopted, one from Korea, and 4 from Mexico, add that to the 9 birth children, you have a big family.

[UtahDan]

There are several families in my ward that have fostered and adopted several children each. The interesting thing is that they all are doing it not through LDS social services but through the United Methodist church.

One of them is my Elder's Quorum pres. and he explained to me that LDS social services is basically into placing infants with young couples where as these families all have parents in their forties and all the children are "rescues" of children who are between three and ten.

Just found that interesting. I respect the hell out of these people for doing it, hard to think of many things more noble.