Adoption Interviews #5

Here is the fifth installment of the adoption interviews we’ve been doing with parents who’ve adopted and those who are still in the process. If you’d like to be included, please leave a comment and I’ll send you the information. This one is from Linny, who is the co-administrator at our adoption forum. People decide to adopt for many different reasons. What led you to adoption? As a young child I...

National Adoption Day 2008

National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 129,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For the last eight years, National Adoption Day has made the dreams of thousands of children come true by working with courts, judges, attorneys, adoption professionals, child welfare agencies and advocates to finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for...

Choosing Your Child’s Name After Adoption

At our adoption forum, I asked members who adopted an infant, how much input their child’s birth mother had in choosing the child’s first name. Here’s what they had to say; 1. She had picked out “a name. We chose a name that starts with T (we made it up). She really like that, too, and the fact that it “goes with” her son’s name. 2. We met with our girls’ birth mom a week...

Adoption Isn’t Selfish: A Birthmother’...

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A Birthfather’s Story

Adoption right choice: by Brennan Purtzer Imagine my son’s delivery room. He has just been born, and our family is huddled together with the love and warmth and security that only a mother and father can provide. Too bad it didn’t happen this way. I wasn’t there. I couldn’t be there. I chose to work in an Alaskan fishing village while my son was being born so I wouldn’t have to see him being...

Domestic Adoption

Domestic adoptions can be handled through an agency, attorney or facilitator and follow the laws of your state of residence. Prospective parents may pay some of the living and medical expenses of the birthmother but these rules vary depending on state law. Parents are usually selected by the birthparents of the child they adopt and while ongoing contact is increasingly common, the extent of that contact varies...

Domestic Adoption Podcast

Part One Part Two Part Three From their website: Our friend Lindsey joins us in the studio to talk about her experiences with the domestic adoption process. Unlike our friend Sarah who adopted internationally, Lindsey and her husband Josh have had to endure (and are still enduring) many different and unexpected hurdles while trying to adopt a baby here in the US. It has been an exhilarating, exhausting and very emotional...

Choosing Your Childs Name After Adoption

I recently posted an poll at our adoption forums which asked “For those who adopted an infant through domestic adoption, how much input did the biological mother have on your choosing a name for your child”?The results were: (total votes = 15): 1) The bio. mother chose the name and I had no input 0 / 0.0% 2) I chose the name and the bio. mother had no input 7 / 46.7% 3) I chose the name along with the bio. mother...

Meeting With A Birthmother

Interesting article from The New York Times, about the author’s meeting with a birthmother. Nona Martin Stuck, already a mother to three, shares her thoughts during her fourth adoption. It’s quite a touching story, which starts with the meeting and goes all the way through the birth of her son, which she was present for. By our own clear-eyed assessment, my husband and I sprang from relatively shallow ends of our...

Adoption Options

Adoption Options At-a-Glance : A Companion Guide for Families Year Published: 2003 This guide focuses on one way to think about how choices in adoption may flow from one another: There are two types of adoption: domestic and intercountry. Domestic Adoption: Agency Oversight: Agency oversight varies from licensed and accredited agencies to unregulated facilitators. Voluntary Surrender or Termination of Parental Rights (TPR):...