What would you like to see happen in 2008 with regards to adoption?

Question

Are you hoping to reunite? Are you hoping to finalize an adoption? Are you hoping for a successful Adoption Reform Conference?

What would you like to see 2008 bring for adoptees, birth families and/or adoptive parents?

Happy New Year everyone!

Answer 1

Personally, I would like to see children removed from their homes (when theres ongoing abuse) before the child has been damaged beyond repair.  I see too often that parents are given more rights than the child, and the state goes the extra mile to make sure they have every chance to straighten themselves out, but they kind of lose focus of the kids.  By the time the child is removed they have suffered so much abuse that they will spend a lifetime trying to repair their hurts.  

One of my children that I adopted, was the child of an I.V. drug user.  He had not lived with his mother for over a year, and had bounced around from pillar to post.  The father knew where he was but not once every visited him or showed interest in him.  The state gave him the opportunity to start visitation with his child.  He visited 6 times out of 11 opportunities before deciding that he really didn't want to have a relationship with him.  The child was hurt, he had just met his father and now the father was rejecting him.  Why harm the child, when the father never wanted a relationship with him before?  I just think that too often the parents have more rights than the kids.

Answer 2

I am hoping that this is the year that my natural mother and I reunite.  I am hoping to meet her and my brothers.  I am hoping to meet my natural father and his daughter.  I would like all of us living adoption to be able to control adoption and make it better.  

I am hoping that the foster adoption increases.  I am hoping that states will allow adoptees access to their OBC.  I am hoping  that we become a unifying force to be reckoned with.  I hope that the NCFA is taken down and discredited.

Answer 3

reunited with my girls

open records

Answer 4

I know this is a touchy subject for a lot of people but i think since they screen soo well during your adoption process i really thing they should start letting g*y people do it too. Not that i'm like a huge g*y activist but i think everyone deserves a chance at a good life. I'd like to see a lot more kids have homes instead of foster homes i know some of those are good but it's nothing like being able to call a place home. I hope you have a good new year too:)

Answer 5

I am hoping to successfully finalize an adoption.  I would love to see some additional aid from the government, especially the state for adoptive parents.  The federal tax credit is nice but the states (especially KY) need to catch up with support.

Answer 6

Open records!  

And a Happy New Year to you too, thanks.

Answer 7

- Open records

- Regulation of adoption agencies, lawyers, and facilitators via strict federal laws that are enforced.  Fathers' rights to parent are protected.

- Adoption industry reforms adoption language that is offensive to natural families.

I know that is a very ambitious list, but one can dream.

And a Happy New Year to you!

Answer 8

I hope this will be the year my family is no longer a mystery to my son.  I hope this will be the year more laws change for reform.  There are more but I'm just a bit raw from adoption right now.

Answer 9

I would like to see hundreds of people show up in New Orleans this year at the Adoptee Rights Demonstration and have the legislature listen to us, and enact a nation wide open records bill restoring adoptee rights and giving us back our equality in this department.

Answer 10

Of course, I'm hoping for unconditional access for all to OBC's.  I would like it to be a year that we stand together with dignity and fight victoriously for equal treatment under the law.

I would like to see women with unplanned pregnancies have more services available to them.  

I would like to see kids make it out of foster care so they can have permanent homes and families.  I'd also like to see more support and services for the people who provide foster care.

Answer 11

I'd like to see the rates of infant adoptions drop dramatically and for family preservation to be much more broadly supported in this country (and abroad). I'd like to see the half million or so kids in foster care be reunited with their families or be adopted into permanent loving homes.

Oh yeah, and as Amy said, I'd like to see NCFA crumble.

Answer 12

This is a big one, but I would wish for every child in the world to be in a loving home.

Answer 13

I hope that adoption agencies stop going around the father's. And I hope to unseal records for the ones that want to know where they came from.

   Most of all for my Grandson to come home to his father and sister. This would be wonderful.

Answer 14

OPEN FREAKING RECORDS!!!



That's it, well and a glimpse of my son. But the opening of adoption records could make that more probable for every nmom and adoptee out there. So forget my own desires, I want open records for all and for all a good night.