Posts Tagged ‘Adoption’

Operation Vanessa

Posted: July 7, 2010 in Adoption
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In July, 2008, a California woman filed a petition for a formal adoption of the daughter that she had been raising – in California – for about 6 months. The adoption went smoothly. The birth mother, from Ohio, claimed that she became pregnant from a “one night stand” and did not know the father.

Well, it turns out that the birth mother was lying.

Tonight, Stickam… http://www.stickam.com/baseballgeek 7:00pm PST

On the morning of January 8, 2007, my wife and I drove to an adoption agency. We left that agency with this young man in the backseat.

It is no secret that the infant adoption system that acts a lot like one big baby supermarket is in need of some major reform. An article I read today here proposes the simplest of reforms that could (and should) be immediately made mandatory. I am sure that some adoption agencies make clear to prospective [...]