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Laurel and Johnnie Girl--
What backwards place are you writing from, where only "blood" constitutes a real family? I'm sure there's plenty of people raised by their birth families who have been abused, mistreated or worse, that would have loved to have been raised by an adoptive family that cherished them and loved them as their own.
And you've got to be joking about the "five year window". Did you ever think about the fact that many children are up for adoption because their mother had them too young, and that someone with an education, a decent income and the domestic stability to welcome a child into their lives may not be able to achieve this at only 22 years of age?
Look at the world around you---times have changed, and the cost of living and supporting a child is astronomical. Maybe some of us would like to be sure that we are making the best and most educated decisions we can before repeating past mistakes of the generations before us (i.e. high divorce rates, "latchkey" kids, etc.) Our kids can only benefit from this in the future. That is, unless you're living in a place where it's not ok that you look different than your parents, and they are more than 20 years older than you.
