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Showing posts with label choosing adoptive parents. Show all posts

Friday, December 14, 2012

How an Open Adoption becomes 'Closed'



Ken Robbins, Houses by the Bay, Archival Digital Print

A few months ago we heard from a young woman who had recently relinquished her child. She was full of pain when she wrote to us, five months after surrender of her daughter. Her "open" adoption turned into a nearly closed one after the adoptive parents of her baby read about her sorrow on her blog. She went through an agency, American Adoptions, based in Kansas, but deals with placements all over the country. Their website shows many pictures of happy couples, with dogs, without dogs, whatever you are looking for. It makes the process of giving up your child seem like the ideal solution.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Choosing Adoptive Parents for YOUR Child


Linda
If something happened to you and your children were left without parents, which couple among the following would you most like to see adopt them?  (Asked of parents with children under 18)
                                                            All        Dads            Moms

I'd prefer some nice couple
from Iowa                                            44%        41%            45%

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett
Smith                                                    25          26                24

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia
  de Rossi                                               7            2                11

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie                 6           6                  5

                                      Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes              3           4                  3