Adoptees - what were/are your first parents occupations?

Question

Given that SOME people assume you would have grown up in a ghetto, with druggies, prostitutes, poor etc if you were not adopted.

What was your parents occupation at

a) your birth

b) now

Answer 1

A. Both parents in college

B. Nmom was an office manager for years, now disabled

ndad is a contractor

Answer 2

I'm a firstmom.

I was a sales clerk at a dept store when my son was born.

I'm a university researcher now.

Never lived in poverty (which doesn't negate good parenting anyway), never drug addicted, never "turned a trick".

Answer 3

birth parents?

My birthmom was a college student

and now is a retired social worker

*my birthdad is has no idea... lol

Answer 4

Birthfather worked for the city

Birthmother – maid and w***e and drug addict.

Now i have no idea.  I do hope birthmother found a better path of life though.

Answer 5

a)

she=white collar office career in her mid-20s

(retired from same company 30 years later)

he=banker in his early 30s

b)

both=retired

Instead, I grew up with abusive alcoholics who couldn't afford a car or even a TV. Until I discovered other adoptees on the internet, I thought I was the one unlucky adoptee in the country who didn't get a loving family or "better" life. Now I know better.

Answer 6

Some of us don't have the positive stories that others have written about...

My birth father was a machinist during the day and a pedophile at night.  My birth mother was literally a baby maker - barefoot & pregnant all the time.  

As for what they do now, I really haven't cared enough to find out.

Answer 7

She was 15 so I would guess school. As for now, who knows.

Answer 8

a.) At birth she was a senior in high school, living with her parents. My grandfather owned his own business and my grandmother was an office manager.

b.) Now she is a self employed real estate investor, owning multiple rental income properties in a large city.

No ghetto, no druggies, no prostitutes.

Answer 9

At the time of my birth my mom was a student and my dad drove a tow truck. Now my mom is semi-retired, she has a degree in sociology. My dad owns his own business customizing low rider trucks and motor bikes (mostly doing customs choppers and touring bikes but takes on the odd street bike as well).

Answer 10

At my birth

Mother = a pre=med student

Father = a computer operator

Now

I have no clue due to sealed records

No ghettos, no junkies, no thoughts of abortion just 'unwed'

Answer 11

We weren't poor.  My dad was a texturing contractor.  He is now semi-retired from the same business.  My mom was a housewife.  (It was the 1960's.)  She passed away in 2001 due to a nearly life-long illness.  They were married when I was born and chose to relinquish me at 13 months old due to some bad circumstances that occurred (not abuse/neglect.)

ETA:

I wish to respectfully disagree with poster Sarah.  The post proves that her mother did not wish to parent her son.  It does not, however, provide proof that if given financial assistance, relinquishing mothers would relinquish anyway.  Some, like her mother, might.  However, it is very common for women who relinquish state that they would like to parent, but are relinquishing mainly because they haven't got the finances to provide for a child.  (I did not thumb down Sarah's response.)

Also, why are people thumbing down anyone here?  It's simply responses about what their parents did for a living then and now.  How can you agree or disagree with a simple fact?

Answer 12

At birth, I don't know.  I haven't asked.  They did get married 6 months later, and were purchasing their first home at about the time I was 2.  (Lived in an apartment until then).

Now, my mother is an accountant.  My father, before he passed away last year, worked with acrylics...he took design ideas from customers and made them into realistic models of what the finished product would be.  Not sure exactly what all of that entailed, but it sounds like he was very artistic and talented.

Neither one is/was poor or a druggie!

Answer 13

Both were still at school and my dad was a heavy drug user

My birth mum is now an accountant or smthng like that

Answer 14

Good question.  My parents were both in college when I was born.  Years later my mother has a PhD, very respected in her field as a researcher.  My father owned his own business.

Definitely not poor, not prostitutes or drug addicts.

Answer 15

My mom was a nurse when she relinquished my half brother, and still is.

*Not sure why I'd be getting thumbs up.  All this is doing is proving my point that offering a crib or some baby clothes to women/girls considering relinquishment is not going to change their minds...

Answer 16

My mother was in college, father was about to go to Vietnam as a Air Force officer.

Mother has been a CPA, Daycare provider, homemaker, and many other things, including the mother of three.  Her other children's father was an electrical and mechanical engineer.

Father unknown, may not have returned from Vietnam.

Answer 17

Mother:

1) A college student who spent her free time at her parent's yacht club where she met my father.

2) She is what my husband calls a 'trustifarian' or a 'woman of independent means'.  Translation: she's freaking loaded.

Father

1) Corporate type, and was a master sailor

2) Died two years ago.

Answer 18

I'm a birthmom, I had just graduated from HS (his parents considered me from the wrong side of town), my boyfriend/husband was a college student on his way to Viet Nam (his parents had money).

We've been married 35 years and I worked retail for 25 years and we have owned a business for 30 years.

I stay home and watch my 23 month old granddaughter, while my son and dil teach school. Being a grandma is so much fun.

Answer 19

At birth:

Mother - nanny looking after owner's children on a cattle station.

Father - manager of above mentioned station - studying part time to become an accountant.

Now:

Mother - married father 6 months after my birth - went on to have 3 more kids together - they're still together - kids all attended private schools.

Father - an accountant.

Answer 20

a) my birth mother: a prostitute and drug addict

my birth father: my birth mother refused to tell me before she died, so i have no clue

b) my birth mother: really didn't get her life together

my birth father: my birth mother refused to tell me before she died, so i have no clue

Answer 21

what the official papers said:

my mother: a competitive swimmer and honors student.

my father: a college engineering student

the truth:

my mother: 15 yr old runaway

my father: in jail

now:

my mother: office manager in a urologists office

my father: a bum

Answer 22

my birth mom, was a stripper drug addict and my dad was her high school sweetheart that had gotton really strung out on drugs. I heard from my birth dads mom though, that they really loved each other (my mom & my dad) they just got to far in with drugs & it was to late to get out! But that they wanted a good life for me, that's why they were tryin so hard, but the addition got the bset of them

my now parents

my dad is a lawyer and my mom is a RN