brave boots wants to help you find the right adoption agency.
I have two kids and a delightfully odd husband, Brett. My children are Noah (born to us in 1997) and Madison (born to her first mom, Pennie, in 2004 and brought to our family through a domestic, open adoption). They are my inspiration and also the reason I don't get more done around here.
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Mary (smilingcheshire)
November 27th, 2005 at 8:55 am
I have a question for you:
We contacted an adoption facilitator (we thought they were an agency) a couple of weeks ago. Origionally we weren’t going to go with them….
then they emailed Meagan about a very sweet birthmother who is to give birth to a cc/hispanic baby girl in Feb….very open to same sex couples (her sister is gay)…
My question is this - did you use an agency or a facilitator? What are your thoughts about facilitators as an adoptive parent?
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Mary
November 27th, 2005 at 10:16 am
Once again, my email isn’t letting me reply….so here I am lol.
We are with Adoptions of Kentucky. We’re a little irritated with them, since they’ve ‘promised’ us a couple of birthmothers already, only to never hear from them again, and to hear from them we have to chase them down. :/
Anyway.
I think I’ll post on adoptions.com - this facilitator in no way is overpriced, and the owner is an adoptive mother of 3. She seems super sweet *I know we could take that with a grain of salt*
I don’t think facilitators are illegal in Kentucky, I’ll have to check with that. Also, they offer 24/7 counselling for birthmothers, which I thought was a good sign.
Thanks for your input!