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My friends and their "perfect children" are making me jealous!
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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 520220" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Today was one of those days. My whole life I dreamed of having children. Much of that dream was tied up in their intelligence and ability to learn and discuss things in depth. Instead I have children who struggle in school, two of them can barely read, no one is at grade level except Piglet and even then only in some areas. Literally, Kanga and Eeyore's IQs ADDED TOGETHER don't equal mine or most people in my family. I grew up in a family surrounded by doctors and PhDs and I never realized how much of IQ is genetic. TBH, I would have made radically different adoption choices had I understood how much nuture can NOT overcome nature. It would have been different if I gave birth to a child who had Downs because that simply would have been 'fate', but since I CHOSE to adopt and I CHOSE to adopt from foster care, I feel like I deserve every bit of pain I pulled onto myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 520220, member: 1169"] Today was one of those days. My whole life I dreamed of having children. Much of that dream was tied up in their intelligence and ability to learn and discuss things in depth. Instead I have children who struggle in school, two of them can barely read, no one is at grade level except Piglet and even then only in some areas. Literally, Kanga and Eeyore's IQs ADDED TOGETHER don't equal mine or most people in my family. I grew up in a family surrounded by doctors and PhDs and I never realized how much of IQ is genetic. TBH, I would have made radically different adoption choices had I understood how much nuture can NOT overcome nature. It would have been different if I gave birth to a child who had Downs because that simply would have been 'fate', but since I CHOSE to adopt and I CHOSE to adopt from foster care, I feel like I deserve every bit of pain I pulled onto myself. [/QUOTE]
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