Nassau County Adoption Scam

Their dreams of adopting a beautiful baby girl were snatched from them before they could even hold the precious newborn. Joseph and Lisa Weiner of Port Washington claim they discovered the baby’s birth mother was a con artist with a criminal record who was duping two desperate families at the same time. Background checks would have revealed 33-year-old Jessica Dreves has prior arrests for petit larceny, drugs and spent...

Adoption: First Moments

To celebrate National Adoption Month, Adoption ARK held a contest where parents were invited to send in their pictures of the first moments with their child. Adoption ARK compiled all of the pictures and created a video entitled “First Moments”. Share Tags: Adoption, national adoption month Related posts Watch The Adoption Angles...

New Contest In The Adoption Forums

Update: A winner has been picked! Congratulations to Goddess Danu!! We’re having a new contest in the adoption forums! It’s been a while since we had one (I think the last one was here at the blog) so I decided it was time. If you’re already a member, you can head over there to read about it. If you’re not a member, you can join here: Adoption Forums Good luck!! ...

How To Join Our Adoption Forums

Forever Parents was created in 2002, to support and encourage parents of adoptees and those who are on the path to becoming one. Along with this community blog and our adoption store, the heart of Forever Parents has always been our adoption forum. It’s important for those of us who adopted our children to interact (online or off) with others who understand and can empathize with us. Equally as important is for...

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Awards $7.75 M...

DUBLIN, Ohio, July 1, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption announced today a total of $7,750,000 United States grants issued this year, including $7,223,000 from Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, the Foundation’s signature program. In addition, $594,700 was awarded to Wendy’s Wonderful Kids grantees in Canada. The remaining $480,000 in U.S. grants provided critical...

Adoption PSA

Share Tags: adopting a child, adopting children, Adoption, adoption options, choosing adoption, Gay Adoption, Older Child Adoption, Special Needs Adoption, Transracial Adoption Related posts Home For The Holidays: Foster/Adoption Special (1) ‘Jockey’ Adoption Services & Programs (4) The Reluctant Spouse (0) Support...

Support Adoption And Send A Free E-card For Father...

It’s no secret around here that I am a big supporter of the work The Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption does. Now you can help and it won’t cost you a thing. Create and send a free fathers days e-card, or choose a celebrity created one through their site Frosty Card and Wendy’s will donate 25 cents to The Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption. Father’s day is this Sunday so stop by their site and...

Adoption Community Protest Movie “OrphanR...

Update: Debbie, one of our adoption forum members shared a sample letter. I posted it at the bottom. Update #2: A list of email addresses has been added at the bottom of this post. One of our adoption forum members brought this to our attention (thanks Debbie!) and I am passing it along to anyone who may be interested. I’m also adding my personal thoughts, which I shared on our adoption forum, at the end of this...

Hugh Jackman Talks About Australia’s Adoptio...

HUGH Jackman has sent a message of support to Madonna after her failed bid to adopt a Malawian orphan while bitterly attacking Australia’s adoption laws. The Aussie movie star and his wife, Deborra-Lee, have two kids who they adopted as babies from America – Oscar, eight, and three-year-old Ava. But, like Madonna, their hopes of giving a home to a Third World child were crushed by rules that made it virtually...

Adoption Tax Credit

You may be able to take a tax credit for qualifying expenses paid to adopt an eligible child (including a child with special needs). The adoption credit is an amount subtracted from your tax liability. For expenses paid prior to the year the adoption becomes final, the credit generally is allowed for the year following the year of payment. A taxpayer who paid qualifying expenses in the current year for an adoption which...

International Adoption Resources

(note: you can purchase all the books mentioned in this article, through our secured amazon store, by clicking the links) by Cynthia Teeters You may think that the first thing to do to start an international adoption is to get a list of agencies and begin contacting them for information. Actually, you start by realizing that thousands of parents have passed successfully through this process before you and that by tapping into...

My Doggie Bookends

I had to share this picture of my dogs resting on both ends of the futon in our family room. This is Mini in her favorite position: This is TJ, in her favorite position: I love that they’re both in the same position. LOL!! They’re both miniature poodles and are from the same litter. Share ...

Looking For A Few Adoption Articles

*UPDATE* The forum has just been created and I’m starting to add articles to it. The link is Adoption Articles. You don’t have to be a forum member to contribute an article. The details are in this post. Our adoption forums have been around since 2002, but because we’ve always been private it ranks quite low in the search engines (as opposed to this blog-which ranks quite high) and people have a hard time...

Privacy Policy

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by clicking the link above. At http://foreverparents.com/, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by http://foreverparents.com/ and how it is used. Log Files Like many other Web sites,...

Winner Of Our Book Give-Away!

We had quite a few entries for our book giveaway! More than I thought we would actually have! We already have a winner for the contest on our adoption forum. Holly was the winner for that one (Congratulations!) As promised, my daughter Jacqueline picked the winner for our first ever (but not last ever) blog contest! Picking the name: And the winner is…… Congratulations Lori! Choose a book and I’ll get...

One Day Left To Enter Our Contest!

There’s only one day left to enter our contest! Check it out! Share

~ Forever Parents Book Giveaway ~

We’ve been having contests over at the adoption forums (we just started another one as a matter of fact) and I thought it was time we had one here as well! To enter, just introduce yourself in comment section of this post. Nothing to personal, just a little about your connection to adoption. We’ll run this contest from now until midnight (EST) August 10 and I’ll ask my daughter Jacqueline to choose a name...

Support From Family And Friends While Adopting

We were very lucky in that our family and friends were very supportive when we were going through our adoption. It really helped us knowing the people in our life were behind our choice and they were very interested in the process. I know others don’t always have the support they need, or want so I asked the members at our adoption forums for their thoughts. ~~ Absolutely! Our family and friends couldn’t have...

Televsion Ad For Gay Adoption

Share Tags: Gay Adoption Related posts More Gays And Lesbians Becoming Parents (1) Lesbian Seeks To Overturn Adoption (0) Gay Couple Who Sued Adoption.com, Settle (0) Gay Couple Suing Adoption.com (2) Gay Couple Allowed To Adopt In Florida (2)

The Future of Vietnamese Adoptions

There’s a lot of frustration and sadness in the adoption community over the status of Americans adopting from Viet Nam. Here is a statement from the US Embassy: April 2008 The Department of State continues to urge prospective adoptive parents and adoption service providers not to initiate new adoptions from Vietnam at this time. The 2005 Memorandum of Agreement, required by Vietnamese law to authorize adoptions between...

What Do You Want People To Know About Adoption

We asked our wonderful adoption forum members what they wanted people to know about adoption…here are their replies: * I would say that people need to know that kids adopted from foster care are kids first. They were not placed there because they were delinquent or bad, they were placed there (for the most part) because their birthparents had difficulties. Because of their parenting problems, these kids have...