Giving up a kid for adoption is extremely challenging for everyone involved – mainly for the child and the parents. It is not something anyone would be able to understand. The decision to give up a child is final and cannot be reversed, so parents who decide to go through with that need to be 100% sure that is what they want, which seems to be almost impossible. For the parents in this Reddit story, it really was impossible, so they gave up their daughter while still fully believing they would…

Supervillain behavior

Many unfair expectations

These two teenagers built a happy life and a healthy family for themselves despite having the worst parents on earth.

Some parents are born to become foster parents to kids in need of a home. They know exactly how to ensure the foster kid feels comfortable and at home, they know how to get them to open up, and how to welcome them with open arms. It is an honest gift, and those parents truly deserve an award for all the hard work and love they put in. Then there are some parents, who should not be parents in the first place, let alone be foster parents. People whose motives are completely wrong, as they would d…

Such a sad situation

We can all wholeheartedly understand that getting a divorce is a difficult experience. No one wishes for themselves that their loving relationship would fall apart until the only choice is to completely break apart from each other, especially not when there are kids in the picture. But that is no excuse to drop your marital problems on your kids. Even more so, it is crucial that kids know their parents' divorce is by no circumstances their fault, and parents who fail to show that to their kids…

Absolutely not

Nobody can quite push your buttons like your siblings (or parents, for that matter). They know you for too long, and they understand on a very deep level what will annoy you, and what won't matter to you at all. Can't live with them, can't live without them. One kindhearted hospital worker shared that she was fostering a little girl she had treated after she'd arrived with all sorts of injuries. After the little girl recovered, the worker took her in, hoping to adopt her. She cooked for her, go…

Every adoptee has a different story. Some of them really resent the fact that they were raised apart from their birth parents , and others are perfectly happy and content with being adopted and wouldn't want it any other way. That is a two-way street because in order for a child to be adopted, their birth mother either chooses or is forced to give them up. Birth mothers of kids who later got adopted are similarly split on how they feel about it. Some might feel grateful and happy that they were…

They're not his "real" siblings

Families are not always easy to manage. That being said, no matter what your family do or say, you should always be their strongest ally. However, what would you do if a woman showed up out of the blue and introduced herself as your sister? The account that follows is the story of a perplexed individual. The Original Poster (OP), who was fortunate enough to be adopted at a young age, does not remember anything about his time in the foster system. Nevertheless, when OP's long-lost sister decided…

Nice try.

Becoming the proud owner of a dog can be an incredible experience. It can also be one of the most frustrating. The day you take in a puppy is great. You get to name the dog, play with it, and it still has that new puppy appeal. Give it maybe five days and you'll understand why people train dogs as a profession. It's not easy. Proper potty training is a disgusting process, your puppy will refuse to leave you alone, and the sheer amount of energy that a puppy has is astonishingly high. The thing…

WTF

The USA has a lot of things that its neighbors (even the far away ones) should adopt, but the country is also lacking in some areas, and that is what this popular Reddit thread is here to discuss. Let's state a few of the obvious, like the tax system, the bathroom stalls, and public transportation… see, in the comment section, Japan was mentioned more than once, and we can't help but wonder why. Japan is pretty rad, that we already know, but still, why was it brought up so frequently? So we did…