struthMate, you are female, according to your public profile. Who,then, is your wife who needs to be 'sold' your idea and 'who thinks the world and humans are amazing' ? Are we to read 'husband' and 'he' for 'wife' and 'she' ? If so,why did you write of your 'wife' ?
Or are you in a lesbian relationship, in which case what is the point you are now making about giving up work to look after children? ( And you would, logically, have to do that whether or not they were adopted, would you not?)