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Adopting A Child Without Cause...
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 Dr. Timothy Jonahs and his wife were happily married with two adorable sons of 12 and 10. They however always wished for a bonny daughter. One day a school girl delivered a beautiful baby girl in the hospital where Dr.Jonahs worked and put her up for adoption.
When Dr. Jonahs came home and told his wife about the baby, her instant reaction was, ''Let's take her.'' As the baby was born premature and was underweight, her husband was initially cautious and wanted to wait to see whether the baby would live. When his wife saw the baby two days later it was love at first sight. The Jonahs family not only nursed the premature baby back to health but adopted her giving her a loving and caring home.
Now their adopted daughter Sangeeta is a talented girl of nineteen years. She is a student of Digital Arts, sings divinely, plays the piano, is active in church activities, draws and paints beautifully and has brought life and joy in the Jonahs household with her presence.
The moment one is told that a child is adopted; most people instantly assume that the child's parents were unsuccessful in having a biological child. Then when older biological children of the family are introduced, they think, "Why did they adopt when they already had a child of their own?"
Foreign celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are not the only couples who adopt despite having biological kids. Indeed non-celebrity Indian couples are nowadays adopting for reasons other than infertility, which may be as follows:
- To give an underprivileged or special child a loving and caring home.
- Some couples feel that the best way to have a family of two children of different genders without needlessly adding to the world's population is by having a biological child first and then adopting a child of the opposite gender.
- Maybe the parents are the carriers of some hereditary disease like thalassemia or haemophilia. They've already had a biological child risking that the child may inherit the disease. They want to complete a family without risking the health of their future child. They therefore opt for adoption instead of conceiving a child.
Pressurizing your spouse to adopt a child is wrong...
Both the parents must be genuinely willing to adopt a child. Adoption houses will interview both the parents jointly and separately on their motive for adoption. They, having years of experience, may easily make out if one of the parents is half-heartedly adopting. In fact adoption houses want to ensure that there is support from extended family members too.
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