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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this might sound cliché, but is adoption considerable? Not that it always is, I know sometimes a government makes you depend on agencies that hurt the act of adoption or that it's a wildcard or nothing is available, but as an aunt to foster children, I can say there is nothing that feels better.

[–] Notsosupermario 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's not an option due to a lot of factors, mainly that our coumtry doesn't allow couples to start the process as there's a lot of issues with adoption worldwide. It's basically a business for some people to find children that rich people from western counties pay good money for to adopt. For example in Congo it's basically impossible for Congolese couples to adopt a baby as there's more money to be made from western couples. It's also very different from having a child that's your own, so even if it was a possibility, we wouldn't want to go down that road.