My Parents Wanted To Adopt More Kids, After I Started Having My Own. I Didn't Expect To Feel Like This

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I was 10 years old the first time my parents fostered a child. I was 26, married and the mother of a two-year-old when they fostered their last.

But before they renewed their foster license, they asked me if I would be OK with another sibling who was younger than my son.

I’ll never forget that conversation. I sat in a parking lot picking at a loose thread on my sleeve with my toddler napping in the backseat. My mother spoke through her crackly speakerphone...