How To Adopt A Child As A Single Mother

- hi. how are you? - hi. - hi. - this is wonderful, after all this time. - 24 years. - plus. - i often felt threatened when he was younger.

How To Adopt A Child As A Single Mother, if he says to me, "i want to find my birth parents"-- - how would you feel about that? - i've had the good parts, haven't i? nobody can take him from me now, right?

but now he's 24 years old,i don't. i think it might beemotional for all of us, but i'm there to support him. was it difficult to find the file, 'cause it was so many years ago?- uh, no, no, we keep our files. people need accessto their legal records and don't oftenmaintain them. - can i have a look?- sure. - [speaks indistinctly] - mm-hmm.

- i knew very well that i could have more children biologically, but the adoption was my choice. and we heard of max, who was in foster care, and i just wanted him. i just said i'd have himbefore i even got there. we actually tried to adoptfour more children when we lived in england.

we were turned downbecause we were too old, and at the time,i think i was 35. i had no idea what he'd look like. he wasn't a very pretty baby, but he became like a-- a little doll. we are always your parents, right? - yes, mom. - i think that said it all,"yes, mom."

- yes, mommy. - yeah, i thinkthat said it all. [laughter] pandora will probably put upa bit of a fight about this, but that's why she's not here. why are you crying, anyway? - he's ours. - well, he's not--that's not gonna change. he's always gonna be ours.i need you to be supportive of whatever he wants,do you understand?

pandora was,you know, five or six, and she'd been an only child-- - right, not easy. - when we got himat the airport, ken kind of brought him through the security thing, and, uh... hold on a second. - you okay, mom? - ish. - huh, you okay? - it's emotional. - yes. - it was emotional at the time, that's for sure. - yeah, yeah.

- you okay? - max, you were this big. - no, wait, hold on a second. oh, god, i'm notdoing this crying. - it's okay, mom.- yeah.