Shalane Flanagan and her husband have adopted a newborn baby!! Welcome Jack Dean Edwards

"Lightweights" - overheard in the Ryan and Sara Hall household.

But is her hubby as buff as Ryan Hall?

Lol

And here he is

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_lj-mypdcc/

Looks like a miler!

Gotta give them credit for adopting a child. It is really a selfless act. Most people selfishly have their own children, bringing a kid into the world without the kids consent and then playing up the life is a gift charade to make them feel better about their selfish choice. Thinking their genes are somehow unique when they're not.

Adoption is a process for many, most do not get newborn babies and you really wonder what the biological mothers history is for (giving away) the child. Did she suffer from mental illness? Did she drink and or use drugs during the pregnancy? Was she real young? Was it another selfish accident? The Flanagans probably know the answers to the tough questions but I'm just generally speaking here there's aspects you would not face as a biological parent. I wish them all the best going forward. Adoption is not easy and always has uncertainties but kudos to them for making a difference for a child.

You're crazy...they definitely got a Field athlete on their hands...looking at the second photo I would say they got themselves a high jumper! Already showing good extension over the bar (hands could be a little lower, but we can work on that - or it just could of been nap time)

Best of wishes to the family!!

longtimereaderfirsttimeposter wrote:

You're crazy...they definitely got a Field athlete on their hands...looking at the second photo I would say they got themselves a high jumper! Already showing good extension over the bar (hands could be a little lower, but we can work on that - or it just could of been nap time)

Best of wishes to the family!!

I'll take that bet! I'll even give you all of high school to see if any HJ hops are developed.

Shalane will have him at practice and he hopefully he will naturally gravitate to the distance events. I also think Uncle Jerry will have an influence.

Check back to this thread in 2038

You know nothing about evolution. YAWN.

And why not Jack Dean Flanagan?

Answer Patriarchy.

inner cramps1 wrote:

. Most people selfishly have their own children, bringing a kid into the world without the kids consent .

Are the real parents of the adopted child not even more to blame for your line of reasoning?

Giving a baby up for adoption isn't always the result of the parent(s) making stupid/selfish choices. It isn't exactly uncommon for parents to voluntarily give up their baby because they feel that someone else would be able to give them a better life (i.e. if they lived in an unsafe area but couldn't move somewhere else; giving the baby up would be a way to protect it).

Also, just an opinion but having biological kids doesn't really come off as "selfish" to me. Sometimes parents bond differently with their biological kids than with adopted kids, which is what happened in my experience (differences between me and my sibling, like they're more social/involved with sibling than me, sibling gets in less trouble for the same mistakes, etc.). The idea of having that kind of skewed relationship can probably put a lot of people off the idea of adopting because they don't want to risk being unfair to a kid. And even after going through all the paperwork and interviews that are involved in adopting, other people can be really toxic toward adoptive guardians especially if they're not aware of the fact that the kid is adopted when they meet the family (for example my guardians got asked a lot about why my hair/skin/eyes/etc. looked so different because people were super blunt and couldn't connect the dots). I'm not sure if it's exactly a stigma, but it's definitely an awkward position for adoptive parents to be in. And then there's the issue of if the kid wants to find out about their biological family when they're older. Sometimes that makes adoptive guardians really uncomfortable (mine wouldn't let me, I had to do it without them knowing) for a lot of different reasons. But overall I don't think having a biological kid instead of adopting one is selfish. Parents might feel that they wouldn't be able to raise an adopted kid as well as they could a biological one, so they don't adopt because they want the hypothetical adopted kid to have a good life, which is the same premise for the biological parents to give up a baby in the first place.

This is a disgusting post. Just congratulate them instead of calling people out as being selfish for bearing children. I guess people should be gone in 100 years if they all listened to you.

Having a child is no selfish act. No child is asked to come into the world because there is nothing to ask, no pre-existent soul waiting for the stork. Having a child is as selfless act as it gets, considering that on modern expectations, you virtually wait hand and foot on the child for 20-30 years, suppressing much of what you may otherwise want to do in life. That's not to say that it does not fill you will enormous joy to watch your kids develop. But let's not just glorify adoption over having your own children. Adoption does not, on average, work out nearly as well, and parents of adopted children are less likely to meet various baseline standards for parenthood in part because they lack blood-ties to the child.

"Adopted Students Are More Likely to Have Trouble in School

Adoptive parents reported that an 83% majority of their children enjoyed going to school and nearly half—49%—were doing “excellent” or “above average” school work.5 But when compared to students living with their married biological parents, there were substantially more adopted students who performed poorly on indicators of academic progress and school adjustment. As the figure below shows, adopted students were:

twice as likely to have had their parents contacted in the last year due to schoolwork problems;

three times as likely to have had their parents contacted in the last year due to classroom behavior problems;

four times more likely to have repeated a grade;

and three times more likely to have been suspended or expelled from school.

On the other hand, adopted students were no more likely than other students to be absent often from school (for 11 or more days during the school year)."

two corrections and a link: 'will' should be 'with'; the parents lack blood ties with the adopted child.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-adoptive-difference-new-evidence-on-how-adopted-children-perform-in-school

There are always exceptions and I don’t think you can enter adoption thinking your child’s fail rate is going to be high. You have incredible stories of adoption I.e. Aaron Judge, Simone Biles , Michael Ohre.

We only know so much but I do hope it all works out really well for them.

Didn't take long for the deranged anti-adoption crowd to hop on with their bitter rants. This is literally their first reaction when they see a picture of a cute baby, and when one of the best American women runners of all time receives some unexpectedly happy news. It's really sick smh.

Congratulations to Shalane, one of the greats. Welcome baby Jack.

What a bizarre argument...People who adopt are unselfish but people who have biological children are selfish? HUH??!

Shalane and her husband adopted a baby because they WANTED to...they did it for them. They didn't do it for anybody else but themselves. How is that not selfish? It's not a bad thing to be selfish.

People adopt children and make their own children if they WANT to...meaning they think that having a child will make them happier in the long run.

Pretending like adoption is completely selfless makes no sense. She wanted a child, and now she has one. Just like a mom who gave birth. You can praise Shalane without dumping all over biological moms

inner cramps1 wrote:

Gotta give them credit for adopting a child. It is really a selfless act. Most people selfishly have their own children, bringing a kid into the world without the kids consent .

Hmm don’t think thins young man gave his consent to be taken not their home either