Guest guest Posted December 15, 2001 Report Share Posted December 15, 2001 Yesterday my daughter and I were driving to a church Christmas party when she turned to me and said, " I'm not going to have any kids. I want to adopt, because I might have a kid with OCD and I don't want any kid to go through what I have had to go through. " She's 13, it breaks my heart. Jay, Denver _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2001 Report Share Posted December 15, 2001 Jay, Did you respond that she would be the perfect parent with all of her experience??? With leighs attention to lost or lonely animals, she most likely would become a loving and attentive parent. We tease tom that he has to be causious who he mixes his gene pool with, but he knows its a gentle warning to obstain or have safe sex!! hugs jay... she's just testing! wendy --- " J. W. " wrote: Yesterday my daughter and I were driving to a church Christmas party when she turned to me and said, " I'm not going to have any kids. I want to adopt, because I might have a kid with OCD and I don't want any kid to go through what I have had to go through. " She's 13, it breaks my heart. Jay, Denver ______________________________________________________ Send your holiday cheer with http://greetings..ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2001 Report Share Posted December 16, 2001 Hi Jay: Hugs to you and L.! This is a normal response. Has she read the booklet, " OCD and Parenting? " Although it has the same name as this list it is about people with OCD becoming parents. I think talking to others with OCD about their joy in being parents will help L. realize that we all give genes carrying various liabilities to our kids. Just because she has OCD does not mean her kids will have OCD. Giving her some stats on the risks will help her put this in perspective and be ready not to give up having biological children. Also adopting kids is no guarantee they will not have OCD. Both families with OCD kids I know in our town have adopted their beloved OCDers. They were very glad to meet me because until then they had blamed their being adoptive parents for causing OCD in their kids - go figure..... Take care, aloha, kathy (h) kathyh@... > Yesterday my daughter and I were driving to a church Christmas party when > she turned to me and said, " I'm not going to have any kids. I want to adopt, > because I might have a kid with OCD and I don't want any kid to go through > what I have had to go through. " > She's 13, it breaks my heart. > Jay, Denver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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