Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / April 2008

My birthdaughter turned 18 today.
    It was a semi-open adoption, open in that I would receive updates
and pics throughout her life.  When she was about 4, I wrote to her
with some pictures, and her parents seemed agreeable (the letters were

Vietnam says it's stopping its child-adoption program amid U.S.
charges of corruption, including baby sales.
It's believed the move will spur an increase in adoptions in other
Southeast Asian nations, especially China, where parents often are at

I got this by email today.  There is no URL, but plenty of contact
information.This situation is ludicrous:
<Kinship caregivers currently receive $245 per month for the first
grandchild, with only $91 for a second grandchild.  <n contrast,

To read the posts on this group, you would think that no one here has
ever heard of or seen any instance where the parents of children
removed by the state were in any way responsible same.
Is the group juts that one-sided?  Is it ignorance?  No one here will

figures, Di Welfare dies, and two women who could give a sh.t continue
to live..
Congratulations Jackie.. Congratulations Donna..
You get to continue your important work about how you don't care about

Get this quote. "Money isn't an issue. We're young, we have a nice
house and cottage -- we're everything any birth mother would desire.
We can provide a great life for a child, and it's just not happening
for us."

BASTARD NATION: THE ADOPTEE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION
      P.O. Box 1469
                                                                         Edmond,
OK 73083-1469

What do you think of this Ron?
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Some child welfare agencies hiding behind accreditation
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080421/OPINIONS02/804210304

Foster mom pleads in child abuse case
http://www.fremonttribune.com/articles/2008/04/15/news/local/doc4804a41981fe7977
632517.txt?orss=1
A Fremont woman accused of using a back scratcher to beat teenagers
she is the legal guardian for entered into a plea agreement Monday in

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/13/nadopt113.xml
Cash prize for council that hit adoption targets
By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:00am BST 13/04/2008

I have been led to believe that forced adoption (for want of a better or
the correct term) was certainly being carried out in the US and UK well
into the 20th C. That is to say, single mothers had their babies taken
from them against their will because society deemed them unfit ...

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=6080624
THE INVESTIGATORS
Charges against adoption agency head
Monday, April 14, 2008 | 7:39 PM

Kind of boring, but irresistible.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/04/14/kilshaw-wants-to-adopt
-once-again-91466-20759888/
Kilshaw wants to adopt once again
Apr 14 2008 by Gerry Holt, Western Mail

Hey y'all
Went and gave daddy dearest a call today. He sounded like a pretty cool guy
and certainly loved to talk. Gave me a bunch of family information about his
kids, his siblings (the youngest of which was murdered about 6 years ago -