Comments on: What is your view of single sisters adopting? https://askgramps.org/what-is-your-view-of-single-sisters-adopting/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gail https://askgramps.org/what-is-your-view-of-single-sisters-adopting/#comment-35546 Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:41:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12516#comment-35546 In reply to Loz.

I knew a single woman–one who had never married adopt two teen-aged daughters. This I believe was very nice as there are not a lot of couples lined up to adopt teenagers.

]]> By: Gail https://askgramps.org/what-is-your-view-of-single-sisters-adopting/#comment-35345 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 05:14:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12516#comment-35345 These millions of children around me–will they be adopted or spirit children or will I actually bear them? This is my fear that I will not be able to ever bear children that I will be limited to adoption and spirit children. Sounds like second best to me.

]]> By: Holly https://askgramps.org/what-is-your-view-of-single-sisters-adopting/#comment-34900 Fri, 06 May 2016 23:50:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12516#comment-34900 Gramps. I fully support the procclimation. Gramps can you visualize rows, and rows of children in metal cribs. 3 to a bed, sitting in there hungry all day? No toys, little food? I think the Lord loves these children and many a single and married mother has been blessed DEEPLY by having the privilege to adopt a child languishing in an orphanage setting. I find it hard to believe that a loving Heavenly Father would rather a child suffer a life with no family, no medical care, no love than to be adopted by a single mother. Could this council be from years ago before international adoption was as common as it now?

]]> By: creative_dude https://askgramps.org/what-is-your-view-of-single-sisters-adopting/#comment-34584 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:39:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12516#comment-34584 How about adopting out as a grandparent? A gentleman we knew of lost his wife of more than fifty years on Christmas eve. Within a day or two my wife and daughters had ‘adopted’ him. We lived 800 miles from our closest set of grandparents. We got to see both sets of grandparents once a year, sometimes twice if they came to see us. It was a yearly trip of almost 3000 miles and more fifty hours of driving if under the very best of conditions. Family vacations were all I have ever known or wanted. Grandpa was a valuable addition to our young family, no substitute for existing family but both near and dear to us. Yes we were undoubtedly a blessing to him but he was a much greater blessing to us.

Eventually at least one other family ‘adopted’ grandpa. A remarkable man. Considering how valuable he was to us maybe I need to adopt out myself. Have 13 adorable grandchildren and another on the way but children are such a positive way to spend time. It may not be as much as you want but you might find it to be much more than you expect.

Not flesh of my flesh

Nor bone of my bone,

But still miraculously my own.

Never forget for a single minute,

You didn’t grow under my heart,

But in it.

]]> By: Loz https://askgramps.org/what-is-your-view-of-single-sisters-adopting/#comment-34371 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:47:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12516#comment-34371 It is not possible that children are always able to have both parents… as entitled as you think they might be. And even in this ‘ideal’ situation, children are often abused and neglected. There are a great number of children who have special needs and are discarded because it is ‘too hard’ and often they are thrown into situations which give them absolutely no quality of life. Quality is what is important. I do not understand why single sisters, who have all their love in the world to give, can’t provide a loving, caring, nurturing home for those that need it so much.

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