Adoptees how many of you were raised with siblings?

Question

Or where you raised as an only child? Where your siblings your bio siblings or you AP bio children. And also , where you happy growing up?

Answer 1

I was adopted with one of my bio siblings. The other was adopted to another set of "parents".

Was I happy growing up? Not really. My AP werent the greatest APs in the world. Lots of different forms of abuse. Alcoholism.. Work a holics... etc.

   Sometimes being adopted is a good thing and sometimes its not. I was happy to still be with my bro but knew I had another bro (and later a sis) that I didnt know for many yrs even where they were or what the situation for them was like.

  My bro and I (the one I was raised with) wound up with alot of mental/emotional baggage from being adopted.

  Since I was 13 I was in Group Homes, Mental Facilities, Juvenile Lock Ups, Orphanage, and Juvenile Shelters due to being given back to the state after almost seven yrs of adoption. AP had a bio child (after being told that was medically impossible), decided that they couldnt deal with my bro and I anymore and gave us back to the state.

  My kids are now also in foster care and one is "up for adoption" (not by my choice by any means) situations arose and mistakes were made and now I have to watch my children go through the whole foster/adoption thing. Its scarey for them and for me. I hate it.

  So bottom line is that :

A: adoption with or without siblings (bio or otherwise) is always hard on kids, some bio parents and AP.

  Depends on who you are who they are and all that.

  sorry if you didnt get the answer you were looking for but that is my experience with that whole thing.