There is a form that you have to fill out when you are adopting internationally that lists all of the conditions and circumstances that you will or will not accept with your referred child. I started filling out ours yesterday. It seemed so strange and sad for me to check any of the will not accept boxes. If I was pregnant and found out my child had something wrong with it, I would not reject my child. I would love it and care for it regardless of any condition that it may have. There are a lot of specific conditions that I know I am not prepared to deal with, but if it was my own child I would have to deal with it and I know that I could if I was put in that position. I don’t know if other people have felt weird about this form, but I am having a really hard time with it. I know everyone wants a healthy child, but what about all the children in the world who will never have a home or family because they are different.
I have been putting this form off for one of the last things to do, because I thought is was going to be pretty easy. I am finding out just the opposite and feel that I really need to do a lot more praying about it before I finish filling it out. It looks like I’ll have all the time I need, since it will still be a few weeks until we have all of our child abuse clearances done.
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