First off, I thought I'd let you know about Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. I've read about half of it, and it's as cool and weird as it sounds. It's aimed at middle schoolers but older people might enjoy it too. Ralph, although it's on the easy side for him, this might appeal to Brian if he likes weirdness (and he's my nephew and your son, so he should).
Big news: we are moving ahead on the adoption front! Ken and I went to our first adoption-agency information meeting and were quite impressed with the agency's philosophy and staff. We stayed nearly half an hour afterward asking both the domestic and international adoption managers questions. All the agencies have comprehensive services, meaning they provide pre- and post-adoption support for the birth parents and the adoptive parents as well as post-adoption programs for the kids who were adopted. We'll see how they all compare--we're going to a second agency's information meeting this week and the third one on the 18th.
We're most likely going to try to adopt a baby from this country, which means a more or less "open" adoption where we keep in contact with the birth mother (and father, if he's interested). Hardly anyone in the US does the old "put the baby up for adoption and try to forget all about it" method of 20 years ago and more, it turned out not to be good for birth mother, adopted kid or adoptive parents. We're keeping an open mind about international adoption (most likely Ethiopia or somewhere in Latin America that's not having ethical problems such as stealing babies) and adopting an older child.
Call or email us if you have questions! We're happy to talk about it all!
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How do you decide which adoption agency?? Adoption is one of the things we're thinking about, and I'm intimidated. I'm sure part of this is that we're a same-gender couple living in a state where there is no second parent adoption, but still... how you do decide? Thanks!
Hi hon!
I found a webpage listing all the currently-licensed adoption agencies in our state, looked for which ones did domestic adoptions, and then narrowed them down by their services, their rules about parents' age (that one left out Catholic Charities) and so on
Then, just about all of them have Information Nights where you can hear more details from the staff, get to know them a bit, and ask questions. We narrowed down from the 25 or so agencies in MD. to 2 that way.
I'll happily email you with more details!
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