{"id":2165,"date":"2011-12-21T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2011-12-21T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:20:21","slug":"foster-adoption-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"Foster-Adoption on Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I have been watching the last and final season of Brothers & Sisters<\/a><\/strong>, which finally came on Netflix. Yay! (But also Boo! bc I adored that show and the whole Walker clan.) Anyhow, one of the brothers, Kevin, and his husband Scotty have been trying to have a baby via surrogacy for a couple of seasons. After 2 miscarriages they stopped surrogacy – and all forms of creating a family for quite a while – then eventually started looking into foster adoption.<\/p>\n

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The last couple of episodes I watched they attended an adoption fair, were matched with an older child and are doing the weekend visits with her in their home. At the end of the last episode I saw, Nora and Uncle Saul met the little girl, Olivia, for the first time. Isn’t she just adorable?!<\/p>\n

Oh yes, there were tears streaming… and I do mean mine. It made me sad thinking that my parents will probably never be that excited about meeting a child that is not biologically related to them. I actually don’t know how they feel about grandchildren in general, not just biological ones. It’s just never come up. I have heard, through the familial grapevine, that my mother doesn’t even think I want kids. Clearly she has never met me before.<\/p>\n

My not wanting kids is the same as Jack marrying Juliet. As in, it could only exist in an alternate universe. Or in their case, a sideways universe. LOST reference, ftw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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