Ok, I am being a little goofy, but my daughter (who loves Deal Or No Deal) suggested this and I thought, hummmm it makes a bit of sense.

The lights come up and 26 lovely ladies waltz down a flight of stairs each with a separate reason for you to consider inside their little silver case (can we skip the bald guy, because frankly he just bothers me). You chose your case and begin to narrow down your options. So... do you Adopt or No Adopt?

This does sound like a silly scenario at first until you consider what those beginning the process to adopt (or even to place) must go through. To start with you are standing there, the immenseness of the situation and the many people around you awaiting the outcome is a bit intimidating. Then you bring in people, some you might recognize, some not so much, some are complete strangers, all of them with a little tidbit of information for you to add to your decision making process. At any point it could be the wrong “advice” to open, you just never know. There are some good options out there, you just really have no idea what is going to work out for you, it’s mostly the luck of the draw. Everyone experiences a different situation. Some are going to be disappointed, a few will discover a reward at the end of all that nail-biting.

Actually it would be great if adoption was like an exciting game show, but it sure isn’t. Some of the people, unlike the show, are not so happy to be involved. That could be anyone from your uneducated step-dad to your potential child to be’s other mom, you know the one who will become the birthmom if she picks the right case for you, wrong one for her own heart. It hurts to know that someone will end up going home unhappy. On television you cut to commercial and when you come back everyone is clapping and smiling. In real life there are no commercials and while one person goes home with a potential treasure, another goes home with not so much as a consolation. There are no rewinds, no turning the channel. Reality T.V.? No just plain old reality.