5-7 year old boys who talk back 100% of the time, are completely disrespectful, deliberately disobey when told off, throw fits 100% of the time, lie, take things without asking (like money) and denying it, scream during time-out, destroy things in fits of rage (when sent to room or time-out) etc. etc.

i know everyone has a different idea on how to parent, and on y!answers some people would say beat the kids, and some would say ignore them, that’s why i’m looking for professional/popular books.

Go to the nearest high school and try to borrow a child development book. It will work wonders.

I am looking for a pure bread cat, and i want to know if anyone knows any good breeders or anyone who has these types of breeds for sale or Adoption: ocicat, egyptian mau, bengal, korat, russian blue, or abyssinian? thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s the website that I recommend (most reliable and ethical breeders).

http://www.breedlist.com/breed.html

If you choose Ocicat, contact me privately as I own them and can recommend the better breeders (there are a few I would not recommend).

yang swiffer our persian kitty thinks that her babies are five guinea chicks, 3 silkie bantam chicks, and 2 parakeets! She’s been sitting like this for days

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Foster care is a system set up to temporarily care for children who have been apprehended (removed) from homes where they are not having their needs met, or are being abused/exploited, etc. In these cases, the goal is generally for reunification first..Supports are implemented in the home, and the biological parent(s) are given a "case plan", indicating what changes will need to be made before children are returned to them. Assuming the parents faithfully attend visits, drug/alcohol rehabilitation, Parenting classes, anger management, etc., the goal is to return the child(ren) home.

However, some of those children cannot go home. In these cases, parental rights can eventually be terminated by the courts, which means these children are in foster care with no plan to return home. At that point, the goal changes from reunification to permanency, meaning a search for 1) a biological family member to act as a long term kinship caregiver, or, 2) if efforts to find a kinship home are unsuccessfully exhausted, an adoptive home is sought. In this case, the foster parents who are currently caring for the child often adopt them, but not in every case, which leaves many, many children in care waiting for adoptive families.

There are also Private Adoptions, and agency adoptions, where infants are "voluntarily" placed with adoptive families by their parents.

Adoption is permanent, foster care is temporary. In adoption, the child becomes the child of the adoptive parents in the eyes of the law.

Does anyone know where I can find a contract or agreement "example". I am meeting with an expectant mom this weekend who wants to place with us and we were going to write an "Open Adoption Agreement/Contract" together. We are both aware that these contracts are not legally enforcable, however, we are doing this to make it very clear what is expected of both of us. I really need an example contract as my and her Atty. have never done one. Thanks in advance.

I am not looking for other peoples opinions about open adoption…just need to see what a real contract looks like.
thanks for the opinions, but I need an example. Us and Canada are very different with adoptions. Although this is a Private Adoption we will still need to make it legal the same way Agency Adoptions are completed in court. An Open Adoption in the US means that Adoptive Family and Natural Family have some sort of contact after adoption is finalized. They agree on various issues. It is true that some Adoptive families do not hold up their end of the deal and blow mom off. I realize this and know all about it and think it sucks! My family and I have every intention to hold up our end of the deal. When I am asking for this contract example I just want to see it to make sure we touch on every aspect.
Anatasia…TY very much for looking. I have been searching for hours and cannot find anything either. Appreciate it !

I dont think it really looks like anything
you just decide what you want to agree on and do
and then write it up
although as u said its not legally binding so i dont see what good writing it up even does anyhow
and I really hope that you really mean what u say and say what u mean because its not right to promise something just to get what u want and then destroy someones life because of it….and I cant believe that its not legally bindng,that is so messed up…

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Three women’s lives share a common core: they have all been profoundly affected by Adoption. Karen had a baby at 14, gave her up at birth, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child; she’s a bright and ambitious lawyer, but a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy is just embarking with her husband on the adoption odyssey, looking for a baby to become their own.

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Welcome to part 2 of many; we will be traveling to China in 2010 to adopt our 4th child ( 2nd adopted child). We are adopting a boy with a cleft lip and palate from Nanning City (south China); bi-lateral CL./CP.

In part 2 we discuss budget, CL and CP details, his american name, and sending a package to ZongPei

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A family member went through the process of an Open Adoption last year. The stipulations in the contracts were that she would get to see the child once every three months (planned at the convenience of the adoptive parents), that the adoptive parents would send a monthly letter detailing how her child was doing, and that should the adoptive parents move, they notify her of the change in address.
The adoptive parents made the first two "visitations" and then could not be reached after that. Further, the letters to her every month began drying up at around the same time when her child was six months old. She recently drove past their home and found that they had moved without informing her.
She called the attorney the adoption agency gave to her case and the attorney said that "Open Adoptions" are actually just guidelines and that the adoptive parents don’t really have to follow the stipulations within them.
Should she find another attorney or is that true?
Nice. So my cousin was basically screwed and a HUGE group of people LIED to her. And she’s just supposed to bend over and take it? Such a nice attitude, no wonder birth parents aren’t respected that much. And from a "christian" adoption agency too.
This isn’t the right way to go about this and I highly doubt that YOU could just "go on with your life" after your child is ripped from your arms and then the promises made to you were not kept.
And the child would not have known that my cousin was his birth mother because the adoptive parents and her had already agreed that she could be known as an aunt when her son got older.
She felt forced into this by her own immediate family (if she had come to me things would have been much, MUCH different). And then the Adoption agency and this couple swooped in like vultures while she was vulnerable.
She’s living with me now and we will find this couple. What she does when we do is up to her.

I’m so sorry for your family member. This happens in many cases.

Adoption contracts are enforceable by law, but the ongoing visitation is not in many states. This link below

http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/cooperativeall.pdf

shows a state by state summary of laws regarding the enforceability of ongoing visitation as of 2005. I don’t know what state your friend is in or what state the contract was signed in – that plays a large part too. Sometimes Adoption Agencies will have the contract signed in a state that purposely does not enforce ongoing contact simply so that the adoptive parents at any point can feel free to cut off contact without legal ramifications.

Your relative may wish to consult with a local first parent’s group in her state to see from them if what the lawyer said was correct. Unfortunately it probably was, but she needs to at least try.

She can check the Concerned United Birthparent’s website at

http://www.cubirthparents.org/

to see if there is a local chapter. If there isn’t, the contact names of the board are on that site, and they can probably direct her to a resource in her area.

I’m so sorry.