Real Life Stories about Adoption

I get to see my son every year at the Friends in Adoption picnic and I get letters and pictures twice a year.

I wanted more for my son than I was giving him.

My son is now a year old and I do think about him. I love him, but I knew what I had to do.

I was adopted through the foster care system and mistakenly thought that a private agency was the same as the state. I was so wrong.

I was 16 years old and worried about what my friends, family and small town community would think.

Until you are faced with a challenge you won’t know for sure what road you’ll take.

I wasn’t ready to talk about my pregnancy with my family until I figured out what I wanted to do.

When I found out I was pregnant, I didn’t know what to do. I was already a single parent of two daughters.

Patty told us everything about what Friends in Adoption stood for and about how things would go. She told us about open adoption — I had no idea what it was, but when I found out, I was all for it. Going through a teen pregnancy was definitely one of the hardest things I have had to go through, but I believe everything happens for a reason.