If there were no more children available for adoption...?

Question

what would you do to offset the "desire" to raise a child?

Answer 1

Foster the older ones and mentor.  There's never a lack of children who need and want a responsible adult in their lives!

Answer 2

get a puppy.

Answer 3

Most people I know who can't have children either travel a lot or have pets and put all their efforts there.

Answer 4

Probably the same thing that people who can't concieve, but also DON'T wish to adopt.

Get on with my life and enjoy my daughter who i gave birth to and my husband.

There is a TTC couple in my sunday school class who don't even consider adoption. They will be the first to tell you how much fun TRYING to have a baby is. But if it does' thappen they're not devistated.

Answer 5

My husband and I made a conscious decision to have only 2 children and to help families in need when with some of our "surplus".  Now that they have almost completed college, we make significant donations to an organization that helps families in need by keeping them together and not trying to tear them apart.  The facility has a day-care center for low-income WORKING parents, a residence for pregnant teens that provides high school classes and parenting training (no adoption here!), and temporary respite care for children whose families are experiencing a crisis like job loss and/or family illness.  The program fills the gaps that our irresponsible US government creates by shifting more and more income to their rich friends.

There are lots of ways to nurture and love children.  Please look around you.  The cycle can be broken.  It happens every day.

Answer 6

Well I've already had kids the way God intended, he told me to have wild and unabashed s*x and I did, and I was fruitful and multiplied.

So I don't have that problem.

But if I did, I supposed I'd do what Elizabeth would do, and use the money I'd otherwise spend on kids, on things like traveling and bling, and travel some more.

Maybe I'd meet up with Liz in Paris. ;)

Answer 7

What a common fallacy.  It's not such an unusual feeling of desire that most PAPS & APS have.  Many biological parents have that same feeling of wanting a child.  It's only those who DON'T have that feeling, who contribute to the problem of your question never becoming reality.

The biggest difference between most APS and biological parents is that APS either can't conceive, or don't want to, because there are plenty of children needing a home already.  But, usually, both have that 'desire' to become a parent.

Answer 8

I'd keep on doing the same thing I'm doing right now, and be happy that all the kids are with their natural parents!  There is no hole in me I'm trying to fill.  I learned to fill my "holes" long ago, all by myself.  It's not someone else's job to fulfill me - certainly not someone else's child.

Answer 9

Have a real child with you're blood, or adopt a pet.

Answer 10

I would take the money I would have spent on child rearing and buy a new sports car, a diamond tennis bracelet, and a first class trip to Europe.

Answer 11

I would've gotten pregnant & given birth instead.

Answer 12

Concieve and give birth.

Answer 13

If there had been no more children needing a home then I would have gotten pregnant again (not all people who adopt are infertile).

Answer 14

Mentor kids who should've been put up for adoption.  I did that for several years and I wound up fostering one of them for over a year. Also... could do foreign exchange.  My husband's problem with this though is that you have a never-ending 16 year old....