PCOS Messages for November, 2000: Re: Adoption

Re: Adoption

From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:32:10 -0600 (CST)

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Stacy-

Many of the people in my family are adopted. My husband and I are also looking into adoption as a way of creating our own family. While our situation is a bit different than yours in that we would like to adopt kids with special needs, I've been involved with adoption agencies just about forever and I know that yes, there are many kids out there who need homes who don't come with very severe mental/emotional/physical problems. You may have to wait a bit longer than you would otherwise, but please don't give up!

I would look into adopting internationally, as a start. (If that is acceptable to you) Particularly in Asian countries such as Korea and China, newborn babies are fairly commonly adopted to the USA. If you are interested in older children, without health problems, many other countries in Latin America and the former USSR have US adoption programs.

Something else that may be an option if you are looking to adopt domestically that my husband and I have found to be a WONDERFUL resource is Catholic Charities. Don't be fooled by the name - they adopt to anyone regardless of race, religion, creed, marital status, whatever. They can organize an adoption for you of a newborn baby with no health problems. The fee is 10% of your annual income, whatever that is. (No more than 10K)

Also don't forget to just work your own connections. Tell everybody you know that you are interested in adopting. It seems that sooner or later, almost everyone we know who has tried this approach has had a "friend of a coworker's great aunt's daughter", or something like that, get back to them and want to give up their pregnancy.

I'm sorry this got so long, I should have emailed you probably! Please feel dree to drop me a line if you are interested in any more info okay? I really do wish you the best of luck with everything.

-- Sonnet

At Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Stacey wrote: > >I'd be interested in other people's thoughts on this. I have no >intention of spending thousands of dollars on medical procedures I don't >need when that money could be so much better spent on a child who needs >a family. However, when looking at options, it seems that most of the >kids in my state are all loaded with physical or mental/emotional >handicaps. I'd love to help, but I am far from being in a financial >position to take care of a child with such severe problems. Am I just >looking in the wrong places?

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Email always welcome to: sonnet_fitz@hotmail.com

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