Now that you are retired, has the thought ever occurred to you to adopt another child?

Question

Not done it, not yet, not that crazy, yet, just the thought?

Answer 1

No. No a thousand times no..But I have thought about having an exchange student live here during the school year..It would be terribly unfair to the child to adopt a young child @ my age..I could handle a teenager O.K. I just finished raising my grandson from the time he was 2, he is now 20..We did a good job, but the responsibility is awesome, I enjoyed almost every minute of it, but really don't want to do it again..

Answer 2

Are you nut's? it would mean letting him or her take my walker out on a friday night and wrecking it! no way!

Answer 3

I have a lot of fun with my grandchildren but I can send them home at the end of the day. No so with adopted children.

Answer 4

No been there done that.

Answer 5

NO!!!!! I'm happy to be free! I still have 3 dogs & I have to find a home for one of them before we hit the road in an RV, because she doesn't get along with the other 2.

Answer 6

never never never!  just borrow a grandchild or volunteer at the childrens ward or at a grade school.  

Answer 7

We never planned on adopting   a child. My hubby and I are in our early 60's and would never do this. Now we have adopted our 9 year old grandson because it was necessary to do so. We love him but it has brought a drastic change to our lives.     Poppy

Answer 8

NO - definitely not!   I have enough trouble looking after myself, without even considering a child to care for.   I have not even thought about it.

CJ

Answer 9

Spent two hours today with our sweet little 3 week old great grand daughter. When she got fussy her momma took her home.

I dearly love my kids and love to spoil the 16 grand kids and 9 great grand kids.

For the last few years we get new arrivals and they will keep coming.

Our family has multiplied to over 40 people.

We are a very happy family.

DeeJay.

Answer 10

because of health reasons, I'm not in a position to adopt. But my granddaughter and I are emergency foster care providers. It works well If I'm in remission we get to do a good thing, if I'm having a flare we just decline for the one time. We specialize in children with special needs. And because of the experience, my grand has decided to be a social worker and advocate for mentally and physically handicapped children.

Answer 11

My husband and I have recently discussed adopting some older children. I know that brothers and sisters are often separated because people are unable to take more than one child. We have a big home that we are just bouncing around in and we miss having children in the house. I'm hoping that our age and health problems won't be an issue.  

Answer 12

Our son was natural and we adopted a daughter 9 years later. They are 30 and 21 now. We are still fairly young, in our mid-fifties but since we are paying for our daughters college yet, don't think we'll be adopting any time soon.

Maybe 3 more years after my daughter is out of Physicians assistant school. But then we'll have to spring for a wedding. Then maybe we will just enjoy grand-kids eventually instead.

Heck, now you got me thinking I should just marry my daughter off and jump to total retirement phase.

Answer 13

i'm on the brink of retirement ,and the last thing in the world i'd want is a small child .however i may sponsor a child again .

Answer 14

Not really,have a hard time keeping up with me

Answer 15

LOL . . . I wish I could do bold face and change the font on here, because I would use the largest font available in bold when I said "NO".

Answer 16

I think the Good Lord, in his infinite wisdom, relegated child raising on the opposite end of the age spectrum from senior citizen.  I don't have the energy and patience I once possessed, and though I love children, raising them is for the younger set.......

Answer 17

oh yes i would love to, only that at the time right now i'm watching over and doing for my parents. i guess i will have to wait for grandchildren,and do look so very forward to it !!

Answer 18

Oh heavens NO!!  I'm old enough that if I adopted a child I couldn't keep up with him or her.  Not to mention the embarrassment of the child when I had to go to parent-teacher conferences.  

Answer 19

     We raised my daughters three kids, two of them are now teens and she now has them, she also has twins daughters that, although are angels to us, are better in her home, they are always over our home, all of them so, why should we want to adopt children ?

Answer 20

I'm over retirement age, but I haven't retired and I think I've got enough on my plate with 4 step-children, one biological daughter and 4 grandchildren.

I was 53 when my mother died. Why take on a child when you can't guarantee you'll be around when the child is 18?