What makes someone special? What about you is unique? How do you stand out from a crowd? For me, I was adopted from China. My sister, Mina, and I are both adopted from China. This represents my family because 7 people in my family including my sister and me are adopted. First came Mina, then me, Lucas, Desmond, Malcolm, and finally Bennett and Liam. Most of us were adopted as newborns but Mina and I were adopted as toddlers. I was abandoned at a police station station somewhere in Guiyang City, Guizhou, China. But I was not tossed out on the streets, not as many people would believe. People have misconceptions about abandoning your child. I know that my birth mother loved me, but she couldn’t raise me. As you might know there is a very high …show more content…
domestic adoption? What is international/ domestic adoption? WELL, domestic adoption refers to the placement of US born infants for adoption by their birth parents, who legally consent to the adoption with and adoptive family of their choosing. Which means you legally give your child to another family. And international adoptions are which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parent(s) of a child who is national of a different country. International adoption is most usually not legal of the birth parents. (They most likely abandoned them). My sister and I were internationally adopted, Desmond, Malcolm, Lucas, Bennett, and Liam were domestically adopted. Mina was adopted first, then Lucas as a newborn, me as a 4 year old, Desmond and Malcolm, then Bennett and …show more content…
Their reason to adopt was because they did not want to have children themselves and Heather had medication difficulties. Desmond was adopted from Columbus Ohio as a newborn, and Malcolm was adopted from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Des’ birth father had passed away and had the birth mother had other children already. And Malcolm’s birth mother had another child already and was very young. And luckily for Desmond he stays in contact with his birth family. He actually went to Disney World with them last month, they have frequent vacations with them. And for Malcolm, he saw his birth mother a year ago in