Q: Sibling Adoption Q+A
I am almost 21 years old, I have a job and I am getting ready to move out in may. My younger sister, who is 14, is a homosexual. My parents are extremely religious and when they found out that she was a homosexual, they blocked her off from the world and screamed at her for hours, telling her that she cannot be who she is, ect. She cannot get the emotional support that she needs, and along with that she cannot see a therapist or take medication to help with the problems she has been having. They have been overall been making things harder and harder on her and it is taking a toll on her emotionally and mentally and I would really prefer to take her out of a negative enviroment that makes her depressed where she cannot be comfortable talking to people without backlash happening on the home for days or weeks on end. I would like to attempt to adopt her and I wanted to get a professional opinion on the matter.
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