Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / November 2003

Subject: Suspicions grow in AL- DHR refuses lawyer to teen from Guatemala
From: fern5827@aol.com  (Fern5827)
Date: 11/28/2003 10:43 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <20031128104325.12166.00000890@mb-m26.aol.com>

What now? Child is a moron with IQ<10.

Help
Searching for Birth Mother of my husband
His name at birth Peter Leonard McCutcheon
DOB Dec 17, 1955 at Humber Memorial Hospital (York County, Toronto, Ontario

Subject: Nurse Callahan & " Memoirs of baby stealer" reviews
From: fern5827@aol.com  (Fern5827)
Date: 11/30/2003 11:46 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <20031130114604.12215.00000836@mb-m25.aol.com>

I think perhaps I am on the wrong list.  I was wanting to talk with others that
have had a somewhat rocky relationship with their adopted adult child.
Please direct me as to where to go.  I know this is quite unusual but it is my
situation.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/25/international.adoptions/
U.S. speeding international adoption process
From Terry Frieden
CNN Washington Bureau

There are 6 messages in this issue.
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     1. Re: Our Group Has Been Sabotaged
          From: "Martha Bell" <bell14@cox.net>

Hey Dipstik, your intelligence is showing once again....or should I
say, lack of?
Psycho is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O, not phyco like you attempted.
Hospital is also spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L.

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We are at the very beginning of the adoption process, we have been to
two different Adoption Fair. We are considering this agency and I was
wondering if anyone had any positive/negative experience with them
Thanks

Big tears all around.  :-)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1126/p17s01-lifp.html?entryBottomStory
The best story that day was in the classifieds
Newspapers are full of sad stories about abused children. But this tale, which

Thirty-seven years ago, just before Christmas, my wife gave up a child
for adoption. At that time there were no other alternatives than to
make such a sacrifice.
Not a Christmas has passed that she has not cried, wondering about

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:58:07 -0500, North <northmt@hotmail.com> wrote:

I have a 1/2 sister that I learned about 5 years ago
my Dad had a whole other family while married to my Mom
the kept the first boy (I had knew him as step-brother) then they he and now
step-mother had a girl they gve up for adoption, got married after my parents

We do need a break from the search wars - here is something from my
favourite newsgroup for things I would like to do  - the kayaking in
Newfoundland newsgroup - is there anyone else who thinks the idea of
paddling in a 17 foot kayak over humpback whales would be a blast?