Kinship, Gender, and Adoption

Hey everyone! Just a brief post on something that I'm working on right now. I'm in a class called Kinship and Gender for my Anthropology major, and we're going through adoption right now in the curriculum. And we were assigned to watch an episode of Adoption on the Hallmark Channel. And the episode that I am watching at the moment is called "Vietnam Journey/Generations of Hope."

I'm very much interested in Asia and the ideas the culture that they grow up in. As I'm married, I'm also interested in having my own family. I know that this is a blog that not many pay attention to or even one that many can see, but for me this is a bit of a place where I can tell my fears. One of my fears is that I will not be able to have children with my husband. It's something that I don't really think about often, nor is it something that I have mentioned to my husband. Yet, at the same time I'm not all that worried. My Heavenly Father will look out for us, and He will help us when it comes to children. If we can have children of our own, then I will thank my Heavenly Father and do all that I can to believe that I can be a great mother! But if we are unable to have our own children, and this is a slim chance at that, then we can adopt.

If it does come to adoption, then I would like to adopt from either the reservation where my dad grew up or from Asia. I know, extremely different  places, but that is what I would want. 

So yeah...that's what's been going through my mind right now. It's not a lot, and it's a very unfounded fear, but it does help me a bit to be able to write it out. Thanks for listening to me, those of you that are.