ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the adopters and the serious problems of the child or children they have adopted. They share their pre-adoption hopes and the post-adoption realities of their lives. It is interesting to note that half of the respondents who adopted two children report that their level of satisfaction differs considerably by child. They were very satisfied with one child and very dissatisfied with the other. In one family, feelings of satisfaction versus dissatisfaction operated like a roller coaster ride. Situational factors like how difficult or frustrating the day was mattered a lot. The latter category includes one woman who never married, one who is separated, and one whose husband divorced her after they adopted internationally. The ten respondents adopted a total of nineteen children. At their adoption, the nineteen children ranged in age from three months to ten years old.
