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International Adoption Mexico
International adoption Mexico.
This is one person's story of being born in Mexico and then eventually be adopted in the United States. - Editor
International Adoption Mexico
Happy Beginning
My father meet my mother in Mexico. They fell in love and stayed in Mexico.
My mother was an Irish and German American born in the United States, and my father was a Mexican citizen.
For a few years we lived in Mexico together as a family.
In total, my mother and father had six children and were happily married.
After some time, my mother convinced my father to move to the states with her.
I was the sixth child in their marriage. We left for California two years after I was born.
International Adoption Mexico
Struggling to Survive
Life in the United States was not as they planned.
They struggled and could not make ends meet.
This caused my father to turn to crime.
My mother left him after a few broken promises, and several affairs.
I was only three when they divorced.
My father ended up selling drugs on the streets and joining a gang in Southern California.
His crimes eventually caught up with him after a few years, and he was sentenced to ten years in prison with no possibility of parole.
International Adoption Mexico
Returning to Mexico
While he was in jail, My mother struggled to provide for us.
She was a high school graduate who spent 10 years in Mexico, raising a family, and had no work history.
My father had always been the provider.
My mother had no contact with my father, so she moved back to Mexico.
International Adoption Mexico
A Painful Decision
She faced many issues when she returned.
Lack of employment and quality housing for a family of seven was scarce.
At this point in time, I was about three and a half.
I was the last child born into the family, and my mom faced with one of the most difficult decisions of her life.
She decided that in order to provide for my other five siblings, she would give me up for adoption.
She knew that I would have a better life and education.
She adopted me to a couple unable to have children of their own.
She knew the couple for several years, and she knew they still lived in the same house in California in the United States.
She wrote them a letter.
They said she answered their prayers and sent funds for her and my entire family to return to the States, where they paid for her college education and helped her to get a job and apartment near their home.
International Adoption Mexico
Growing Up
They are good people, my mother has always said.
I saw my brothers and sisters almost everyday of my life growing up.
I was always told that all the children were my brothers and sisters.
I just never really fully understood how literally they were my flesh and blood brothers and sisters.
International Adoption Mexico
Twenty Years Later
We all still live close to one another and speak to one another daily.
I'm now 23, a college graduate with a daughter of my own.
My adoptive parents who raised and provided for me, kindly and generously provided for my college and home.
Sadly they have both passed on, but I will never forget them or the good that they did for my mother and our family.
I have never been upset at my birth mother because she never left me.
She was just as involved in my life as my adoptive parents.
I have learned so much from my life story and situation, that I believe adoption is one of the most beautiful acts of kindness you can do for your family.
I believe that when you give up your children for adoption for any unfortunate reason, you are creating an opportunity for another family to flourish.
I plan on one day adopting my own child.
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