What if you didn't have a family? Where would you be? Who would you love? Who would you laugh and cry with? Can you imagine being an unwanted orphan who was never adopted by a family but just passed from one foster family to the next? ? Some people can relate to this, but others can't imagine a life without a family, no matter how dysfunctional the family might be. Some people pay attention to how many orphans there are in the world, but I feel that when the number is in the millions, it's way too many.
Do you have any experience with orphans?
If you were an unadopted orphan, how would you go about finding happiness? If you never found a family, could you accept other children in the same situation as your friends and family? That is, could you create a nontraditional family of your own made up of people who had similar circumstances to your own but were not blood relatives? What does it mean to be a "family" anyway, in your opinion?
Chylisa Holmes (11:00)
19 comments:
My dad has a saying, "Blood doesn't mean family and family doesn't mean blood." I do not believe that a family has to be something made up of people who are blood related. I think that a family is just a group of people who love each other and would do anything for each other. I have friends that I consider my family because of everything we have been through. I do not have any personal experience with orphans but I do have a friend who lost both of his parents before he even graduated from high school. He lives with his step mom and he has two sisters but I know he has friends that are a big family to him.
Morgan Russian
in my opinion i feel that we are all people and that it shouldnt matter what race we are and if we are look alike. the fact of the matter would be taking a kid and giving him or her a better life. making that kid feel loved and having someone they can confide in. so what would we have to do to make everyone that is against whites adopting a black or a Indian child, our worry would be is that child going to be treated right by this people, and how will it affect the child.
deashanay
although i wasn't an orphan, i can relate somewhat. my parents divorced when i was 3 1/2, my dad hasn't spoke to me since i was 11, (im 31) but my mom and i have a pretty good relationship. i think family is very important, whether its blood or not. i haven't had the best relationship with my own family, but i have always had a family of sorts through my friends. i saw a plaque once that summed it up for me that said "friends are the family we choose". nobody chooses the family they are born into, but some also don't have a choice in not having a family. family to me means a group of people who love, laugh and live together, look past differences, have acceptance no matter what. sure, i've got grandparents, parents, aunts & uncles, cousins, and a sister, but most of my holidays are spent with my best friend and her two kids... they are my family. my own family has resented me for so many years and a lot of things they resent me for were things that i had no control over, meaning these things were not done/caused by me. i feel great sorrow for these many kids who have been orphaned, whether their parents have died, or the parents just simply didn't want them. i believe that anyone can make and have a family, it just depends on the person and their values, what they want. some of these orphans may never be able to because they have developed a hatred for others based on the thought they were hated/unwanted. mgd
Yes, of course you can create your own family. I have a blood family but feel closer to the family of friends I have developed over time. If you choose your own family, you don't have to put up with a loser asshole of a brother just because he's your brother. I think that unadopted orphans can become stronger than others because of the initiative they must have to form relationships instead of having them handed to them ready-made like most of us do.
James Burke
I can't say that I have experience with orphans. I have known a few here and there but I really never thought much of their situation. I guess it would be kind of a rotten deal to be unwanted and passed off from one family to the next. I couldn't imagine a life without my family. I guess the only way that I would truly find happiness is hang around people I know who have nice families and pretend that those nice families are my own. I could see myself adopting a orphan and creating my own family made up of people with a similar circumstance as myself. To me family means love. A group of people who love, respect, and support one another. Regardless, of blood relationship. A family is a unit that functions together and sustains each other. That's my defintion of family.
Eldridge (11:00)
I could never imagine not having my family to fall back on when things got tough. I find it awful that people experience life on their own. My mom was looking into adopting so we fostered a young boy. He was only five but he was a very troubled young boy. He cussed and was very violent, my mom has several health issues so she could not physically take care of him. She felt awful that she could not help this poor boy but you have to find the right match to be able to help someone out.
Darci (11:00)
I think that family is one of the most important aspects of a persons life. I know that my family has influenced everything that i do in life. They are always there for me and any time that i need advice i always go to the first. I think i would be a totally different person if i did not have the family that i do. If i was an unadopted orphan i think it would be very hard to stay positive and focused in life. I think it would be very hard to develop a traditional family relationship with people who are not truly your family.
Brett Scott (11:00)
I do not have much experience with orphans or even adopted family members. I don't even think that I could imagine what it would be like with out a family or even to only have a family for a short time before the next one comes around. I would not have a problem creating a family using orphans. It would be hard to accept them at first but I think that I could manage it. You would just have to be open minded and allow non-blood relative people in and treat them as you would your own kids.
Clayton B. (11:00)
I do not have any experiences with orphans and have never even met someone who was an orphan so it's a hard subject for me to talk about. I mean everyone wants to have a family or group of people that care about you but i really have never met an orphan so i can't really tell you if they are happy or not. I mean just cause your an orphan doesn't mean you will have an unhappy life. I think it could just help a person to get through diversity and may help them later in their life. Orphans can have a family just like anyone else tehy just might have a group of stong freinds that stick together. Yes I feel that it could have its drawbacks but being an orphan isn't the end of the world.
-jake rone-
It would be bad to be an orphan that was unadopted, but it does happen. It is one of those situations that you would have to realize what you have dealt with and make sure that when you get out, you don't let it happen to your kids.
Landon W 11:00
I couldn't imagine my life without my family, we would do anything for each other. I have never met an orphan or know of any so I don't know how they feel but I'm sure they are lonely, I know I am when I'm away from my family here in Urbana, but I know that I still have one and its hard for me to think that if I didn't have a family I wouldn't have the feeling that someone is always there for me like orphans do. I do think that they are tougher people because they have to start from scratch and build up their own family. And family can be defined different ways, some think blood related and others include their close friends as part of their family. I do, I include my boyfriend as part of my family and they accept that as well. So family isn't just blood related. If I didn't have a family I would accept other people in my curcumstances as my friends and family because we are in the same boat and gong through the same thing. We'd be there for each other and be supportive, just like a family.
~Lauren (11:00)
To be a orphan is hard, but that doesn't mean you wont have a family. Family, is someone who will look out for you, not someone who is blood related. Some gangs who don't have a good home enviroment may not have love. So they take care of eachother, and watch out for eachother. I don't know any orphans personally, so it's hard for me to know how they feel in a way. But I would know they could have friends, as family.
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