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Losing an Adoption

Don't believe everything you read in the paper.
High profile court rulings removing a child from an adoptive placement and returning him/her to biological parents are a tiny percentage of adoptions, and generally occur because attorneys or agencies have not fully pursued termination of parental rights.
Every state has different laws regarding time involved in termination.
These can range from several hours after the child's birth to several months.
Keep a positive mental attitude.
When an adoption falls through, it may simply mean there's a better opportunity in the future.

More on losing an adoption

The Homestudy

It's not about your house.
Decades ago, the homestudy started as a way to confirm that the home was appropriate for a child. Today, the homestudy is about people.
It's not about being perfect.
Social workers are looking for people who are prepared to be parents, who know how to solve problems, who are loving, and who have a sense of humor.

More on preparing for the homestudy

Fostering to Adopting

Choosing to start as foster parents may lead to adoption and may not.

Understand the risks going in.
The child placed with you as a foster parent may never become available for adoption.
Love is always possible.
You are providing a safe haven for a child, even if only for a short time, and your love will add to the child's life.
Let go with love.

More on fostering to adopting

And now, here's Rosie!

Perhaps the most awaited moments of the show where those where Rosie gave us glimpses into her own experiences.

She has adopted three times: son Parker, daughter Chelsea, and son Blake.
She adopted three different ways, the first through an adoption attorney in New Jersey. (She did not comment on how the other two adoptions were handled, just that all there were done differently.)
She did not meet the birth parents of her two older children, and did meet her younger son's birth mother.
Acknowledging her wealth, she insisted her attorney / agency provide all financial assistance to her children's birth parents that the law allows.
She has been licensed as a foster parent in Florida (yes, she took the MAPP course) and will welcome her first foster child this summer.

Not Just Talk

As with other recent celebrity adoption television programs, pictures of children available for adoption through the foster care system were displayed. Most shows heavily promote adoption of these children, while program participants are celebrities who have adopted only infants. This show not only included parents of kids adopted from foster care - kids who were born HIV+ or drug-addicted, and older kids, but also ended with Rosie's own announcement of her plans to foster parent - a departure from other shows where celebrities are quick to encourage others to foster parent or adopt from the foster care system, but who don't do it themselves.

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Resources Used in the Article

More Resources from our Editor

Recommended Reading

Adopting After Infertility, by Patricia Irwin Johnston
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption, by Chris Adamec
The Family of Adoption, by Joyce Maguire Pavao

Comments

this comment is for all who beleived that a certain movie stars adoption agency was on the up and up. they were not, as it has taken me 4 years to finally put this corrupt agency and its lying executive director out of business. i hearby ask the overseers of this site if it is allowable to print the name of this agency and director. everything i say is true and backed up by N.J. documentation this actress had the audacity to promote this agency on tv, all the while at the same time stealing my son. the high profiled lawyer knew my name by means of the birthmothers O.B. DAYS after the birth. he also knew that i was frantic in search for my pregnant girlfreind. the ob was restricted by cleint/pateint rules from telling me, but her phone call to this lawyer, she thought, would expose this fraud. he in turn rat holed the information. two months later the bm sent the adoptive parents an extortion letter claiming she would tell the bf if they did not pay. the adoptive coupple then relayed this letter to the lawyer and yet he still did not do any thing. what kind of adoption service is allowed by trhe state of NJ?

Posted by: lobo101 at 12/29/2007 04:56 PM

I think that people should realize that although it may not have taken long for Rosie to adopt she is a celebrity and she has high-powered attorney's who work for her. That does not mean that she does anything illegal, it just means that she has more options at her disposal than the typical middle class family. I applaud her for trying to bring adoption into the forefront of society and for trying to encourage foster care. She means well, I just don't think that she understands that it may be different for those of us in the "real" world.

Posted by: jmrodg at 11/29/2005 03:19 PM

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