Posts by lamamax3

We're using a non-profit agency for a private adoption.  We are open on race, so we were placed in the minority program.  The fees are based on a sliding scale with your income, so our fees are low.  We paid for the home...

Congratulations!  I hope the nursing goes well :)  Enjoy your new son.  

Then maybe I wasn't clear.  Discussing the dress issue was meant to highlight the fact that adopted children are never considered the same as biological children, unless he or she was also breastfed by the adoptive mother. ...

My dad is from Iran, so that entire side is Muslim.  In the religion, an adopted child is not truly a part of the family, unless he or she is breastfed by the adoptive mother.  Women (beginning when they are only nine years...

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been emailing with a SW in our state about adopting from foster care.  They don't have separate paths here :(  We want to keep the age range between 1 and 3, and they told us that we would definitely have to foster a...

I know.  My husband is so cool and level-headed about the whole thing.  He just says that we'll do whatever they make us do :)

I teach a parenting class (The Nurturing Parenting Program) for our local hospital.  We have only dealt with either intact families who are looking for help or families who have been ordered to take the course by the courts (those...

Just wanted to throw in this link to an article titled Sociopathic Parenting to back up my thoughts.

Amazingly, even though my sister is in the legal system, there has never been anyone checking up on the status of her children.  Maybe because she has wealthy parents and extended family to help, they don't want to use...