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Sometimes trying to have a child is like walking a maze. Even criminals don't have to go through so many checks.

There should be a law that after you have passed a homestudy more than say three times that your homestudy certification is automatically five years. During that five years then you have the same rights as a parent who can bear children, to have more as you choose.

With as many times as we have had to be approved to adopt a child, and as many of those have not come to pass because of circumstances beyond our control, and with all we have been through and the multiple homestudies in trying to have children, it disgusts me that we still have to prove ourselves. It just seems to me that the rights of infertile couples who cannot bear children and the rights of those who are fertile and able to bear children are absolutely not the same.

There should be a law that allows extended certification of homestudies, extended approval for greater than 1 year for families who already have multiple children, parents who have already been through the homestudy process and been approved several times. Experience with special needs, raising children, managing family and doing it all should automatically give us the right to say, yes two more, yes two boys or two girls or whatever number of children and whatever needs they may have. We know how to make good decisions.

With everyone proclaiming their rights, what about the rights of adoptive parents !!

Thanks for listening to me vent.