By request, I have answered a few popular questions about my experience being a surrogate mother.
This video gets into a lot of personal information (TMI in other words), so please be prepared to hear about blood clots! lol
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A video to help others understand the damage foster care and Adoption does to children.
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Hello! Thank you for taking the time to view our adoption profile video!
We are Brian and Nicole from Wisconsin, and we are working with Bethany Christian Services of Waukesha for our first domestic Adoption. We are so excited about this journey we are on! If you would like more information on us as adoptive parents, please contact the Bethany office at (262) 547-6557, or bcswaukesha@bethany.org.
You can also view our full profile album at bethany.org/wisconsin.
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I am just wondering i have heard about people doing this b4 .How do u find the parents who want to adopt? how much do people usual pay ?is this safe?
i went to consider abortion but by that time it was already to late i am now 5 months and just very unsure as to what i should do
Private Adoption is not safe and being paid for your baby is illegal. It is baby selling.
There are no guarantees in any kind of adoption. If there is no way that you can parent your child, kinship care by family is the safest route. Any other adoption by strangers, even through an agency, is a huge gamble. There is no guarantee that your child will be in a safe, loving home. Even adoptive parents call so-called "home studies" a joke.
Before you consider adoption, you should read about it from the point of view of those who have lost their children to Adoption:
"What you should KNOW if you’re considering adoption for your baby"
http://www.cubirthparents.org/edd/index.php?id=1
Things about adoption that an agency will never tell you (agencies lie!):
http://www.keepyourbaby.com/index.html
A lot of people in North America who are not of Chinese background seem to be adopting children from China. Chinese children are very much in demand as adoption candidates. A lot of them are girls.
Is it realistic to believe that their parents do not want them just because they are girls, and couples in China only want boys? Is it another lie which the public is being fed? Is it possible or even probable that the children are being snatched or stolen from their parents, and government bureaucrats in China are telling the adoptive parents that the children were given away by their parents?
You know how social workers often work. In North America they seem to harbour some high hatted and condescending notion that only middle class couples are worthy of having children. They tend to lie a lot in North America when it comes to child apprehension and Adoption, so it makes sense that they might lie in China as well. Private Adoption agencies also would have motives for lying.
I find it hard to believe that the parents would willingly give their children up for adoption and not miss them and wonder where they are. It does not seem to be part of human nature in any part of the world to do this type of thing.
Thanks for all the answers so far!
Chinese people are only aloud to have one child. Any more go into orphanages or are killed by the family.
Only female are allowed to be adopted. Males must stay in China.
I am a teen mother writing a paper for my college English class about the contriverasial issues of teen pregnancy and parenting. I understand that people have different point of views about the situation. If you could tell me if you agree or disagree and why that would be great.
I have NOTHING against teen pregnancy and Parenting because I am a teen mother. I had my first child one month and 9 days before I graduated from high school ( I didn’t quit). There are people who look down their noses at us but I didn’t let that get me down, even after I had a second child. It’s extremely hard to raise children these days and it is even harder when you have to do it alone but my children are very smart children, I wouldn’t trade them for ANYTHING in the whole world. Although it was and still is very hard I continued my education and got an Associate’s. Now that I’m sure I can do it, I plan on going back to get a 4 yr degree or better so that I may better provide for my children. True, some people have something to say about teen pregnancy and teen parenting but I used my mistakes to better myself, but have you noticed that most of the people that have something to say have no children or aren’t doing anything with the ones they have??? Good Luck on your paper, and keep ya head up!!!
Can you be rejected if you are overweight with no health problems?
In some cases you could be overweight and that is one thing morbid obesity is a very different story.
Generally, foster and adoptive parents need to have a physical and the doctor is asked to complete paperwork. The questions are often very specific and most doctors will answer these to favor the side of caution meaning if they FEEL your weight puts you at risk or at higher risk for medical issues–The doctor may report this. The State would then decide how to handle the concern.
There have been cases where people have not been considered for obesity issues and how they relate to health. The important thing they look at is if you will live long enough to parent a child.
~~Since it takes a little while to be trained and certified Start a diet today and start a walking program–You could get in great shape by the time you are considered for a placement, if you start today!
My name is Peter Conn. My wife is Gail and our son,8 1/2 years old, is named Miles. The 3 of us traveled to China this summer of 2009. These are some videos taken with my new iPhone 3GS. The mission was to go and get our 6 1/2 year old daughter who we would be adopting and calling Leila Conn. After nearly 5 years of paperwork between the US and China, we were finally doing it. We flew to Hong Kong then took a train to Guangzhou where we met her for the first time. During the two weeks that it took to complete the paperwork for the Adoption, the passport, and the visa for her to enter the US, the four of us were mostly in Guangzhou, 4 days in Shanghai, one day to Yang Chun where her orphanage was located, then finally 4 days in Hong Kong at the end before we returned to Los Angeles. The stills have a more complete coverage but these images have sound and move and give a taste of the adventure. I only video recorded at certain times so it’s highly selective. All 3 parts are about 14 minutes total.
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The Authors@Google program welcomed Jean Hanff Korelitz to Google’s New York office to read from and discuss her book, “Admission”.
“‘The flight from Newark to Hartford,’ begins “Admission,” ‘took no more than fifty-eight minutes, but she still managed to get her heart broken three times.’ No lovesick youth, this is the voice of a college admissions officer at the center of this intricately plotted novel. While most Americans are preoccupied with tax season, millions of others carry another burden?college acceptance letters. (Fat or thin?) An engaging read, not yet another stereotypical look at crazed applicants, this novel provides distraction while awaiting the mail delivery. It allows students (and parents) to feel that the people making decisions are fallible humans, and it challenges readers to grasp the importance of what we admit to ourselves.”
- Chicago Tribune
This event took place on June 16, 2009.
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Most parents agree that matchmaking Web sites and surveys are games mainly adults should play, but some say Elwood Community Schools has been getting students in on the action.
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