Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / September 2004

http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20040919015956.shtml
Group opens home for homeless expectant mothers
By Xochitl Peña
The Desert Sun

http://www.ftnys.org/nobodys.htm
Children feel that they were taken from their birth family, they may be
unworthy. It's estimated that 85% of children in FC have mental health
problems.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/index.html
The dunce
His former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just
as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/17/BAGUV8QGRN1.DTL
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Woman's past unclear in adoption con trial
Saudi royalty, polygamy figure in testimony

From:  LBigduck@aol.com
Date:  Thu Sep 16, 2004  11:08 pm
Subject:  Re: [A_L_I_A] Re: A letter to me from Luanne Pruesner VanDeVelde
IMPORTANT

1.  There will be no bashing, slamming or flamming whatsoever allowed on this
group. If this should occur you be be removed from our group immediately. No
Questions Asked. We are here to support each other not for fighting.
Number one rule has been broken, bashing Luanne and using ...

One of the problems with CPS, DSHS is that the system is riddled with
inefficiencies, unbusinesslike practices, and absolute stupidities.
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040825/opinion/129353.shtml
This Op-Ed bolsters this assertion.

Longtime state worker named interim DCF chief
From Wire Reports
Posted September 9, 2004
TALLAHASSEE -- Lucy Hadi, a longtime state worker now assigned to Gov.

SHALOM
I ask you to read this letter till the end! Don't treat to my words
with indifferens. On Your understanding it will depend my fate and the
fate of my child!

Subject: States all FAIL MISERABLY. CPS passed nowhere
From: fern5827@aol.com  (Fern5827)
Date: 8/31/2004 8:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <20040831085034.26941.00000103@mb-m01.aol.com>

Waiver will help relatives who adopt foster kids
Thompson will discuss effects Friday
By JESSE GARZA
jgarza@journalsentinel.com

Hello,
When challenged to discuss a questionable claim she has posted to
these newsgroups Fern will, rather than engage honestly, rattle off an
ad hom or two, and immediately post a flurry of even more questionable

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2788851
Q: A friend and her husband are trying to adopt a child from China and have
listed me as a reference. The adoption organization's questionnaire asks about
my friend, who I can easily recommend, and her husband, who I ...

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/09/12ky/A1-abuse0912-10204.html
Abuse suit involving old orphanage brings forth both critics and defenders  
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