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I never said fostering is the same as adoption or being a biological parent.

All I said is that there’s a great need for decent foster parents.

Ever heard the phrase “beggars can’t be choosers,” before?

Not to be rude, but either you want to raise children - whether permanently or temporarily - or you don’t.

Full adoption isn’t an option where you live and I doubt emigrating to somewhere where it is is an option. What about adopting from a foreign country instead of within the uk? Would they allow that? Or perhaps it’s still too costly to adopt a child from Romania or some Asian/African country? Maybe worth a look into.

What about family members having kids they can’t raise? Will the gov’t allow you to adopt them? That’s a thing here. Fast tracked compared to a regular adoption process in order to keep a kid with a relative.

But back to my original point: If you Can’t adopt and Want to have the experience of raising a child/children, why not foster and do it temporarily? Help some kid/family, maybe for a short time, but maybe for a long time.. then whenever that time period ends, reassess and determine if you’d like to do it again. Maybe you’ll feel fulfilled doing it and Want to do it again. Maybe you’ll like raising babies and toddlers so much you appreciate that you get to start with another tiny human when one is adopted or reunited with their bio-fam? Always babies and never teenagers might be a blessing. You won’t know til you try it. And maybe it’ll be too much to handle when they’re gone and you decide to never do it again - but at least you’ll have tried it and like they say about relationships “it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Same may apply here, and Wanting to raise children and never even doing it temporarily might be a big regret of yours later in life.

Just saying.. if you Want to raise a baby and won’t have your own, you’ll find a way to do it and at least have as much of the experience as you can get during this life. IMO.

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Raising an adopted child from a young baby will feel like I had him or her myself. I wouldn't want to adopt an older child. Well, I'm not saying I wouldn't want to, what I mean is that isn't the plan. My plan is to bring up a baby from birth (or a couple of months at the most) and raise them like my own right up to adulthood (and beyond). Where I'm the only mother the child has ever known.
It's a bit like advising a single bachelor to get himself a prostitute to have sex with instead of having an actual girlfriend to call his own.
I heard China often has baby girls that need adoption, maybe I could look into that.
And beggers can be choosers when it comes to a child's life and wellbeing, and if fostering children doesn't quite fulfill your desires then you aren't dedicated for fostering. Fostering a child is like being given an assignment, like a carer. It is not the same as having a child biologically or adopting a child from a baby.

But can we carry on this debate in my thread I posted a link to, because we are really derailing someone else's thread.

..as I said, if your Only option to have a hand in raising a child is Fostering vs biobirth or adoption, it’d be better than not at all IMO.

And it’s my thread.

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The word we have for it in Arabic is غَبَطَة. Normal envy or حَسَد is malicious, ghabata is not. It is wishing for what someone else has but without wanting the other person to lose it.

Very interesting few words - thanks for those.

This thread was inspired after seeing on Facebook that an old crush is engaged. I’m happy for him, but it’s still a bit of a sinking feeling for my own perpetual singleness.

Same same when my twin brother phoned me on September 28th to tell me he and his gf got married the day before. (They’re local but no wedding parties allowed due to covid so they just got married with one couple friend of theirs present.) They’ve lives together for a couple years or so and it was an eventuality, it was just the official word that made me feel this way. I’m sure it came through in my voice a little, but I Also had the perfect cover: That day just happened to randomly be a close friend's beach funeral (his 3rd funeral - he was that well loved by so many) and so I was able to use the excuse that “if I don’t sound happy for him, I Am, it’s just that today was a funeral and it’s a somber mood here.” He replied “Fair,” and then carried on with conversation. All of my siblings are married/engaged etc. And then there’s me.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.