{"id":2268,"date":"2019-05-14T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2019-05-14T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:22:03","slug":"adopted-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2019\/05\/14\/adopted-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted At Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot being able to have kids did not stop my parents from raising a child.\u201d Said \u00a0Gina who was adopted at birth. The parents of Gina got married and assumed they would have at least 2 kids, but when that didn\u2019t work out, they considered adoption. At the time the mother was 37 and the father of Gina was 40 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cMy family decided to adopt me, in 1990 in which they named me; Gina,\u201d Gina explained. She was named after the maternal &amp; paternal grandmothers, first &amp; middle name for each of the women. Gina\u2019s father, not the birth father, was an attorney and knew the legal process for adoptions. \u201cThe adoption was \u201cclosed\u201d because there was no contact with the birth family while I was a minor child,\u201d Gina explained. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gina\u2019s birth mother was a young mom who was not able to take care of a child. \u00a0The birth mom wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2269 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled-280x279.png 280w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled-660x657.png 660w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2019\/05\/Untitled.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>to go to college and was planning on finding a good home for her baby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gina was born in Florida and put through private adoption, the process and legal paperwork were done during the birth mothers pregnancy. Both adoptive parents were present at the hospital in Florida for the delivery of Gina. All of the legal matters had to be completed before the adoption was final, the baby was given to them the day after she was born. The family had to say in Florida because of the legal waiting period. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have gotten the best education, family and love that any child could hope for. I am a college graduate and is currently living in Florida. \u00a0I always felt a pullback for Florida for some reason. The family that raised me will always be my only family &amp; my \u201cmom and dad\u201d no matter what.\u201d said Gina with a joyful smile on her face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot being able to have kids did not stop my parents from raising a child.\u201d Said \u00a0Gina who was adopted at birth. The parents of Gina got married and assumed they would have at least 2 kids, but when that didn\u2019t work out, they considered adoption. At the time the mother was 37 and the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2019\/05\/14\/adopted-at-birth\/\" class=\"more-link\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":2269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}