Kansas

You could contact your state's Governor, but there isn't anything he/she will be able to do, in my opinion. The laws are pretty set in stone regarding overturning an adoption and the sealing of original birth certificates once an adoption is finalized.

Adoptees for years and years have been denied access to their own paperwork and birth certs., which is an unfortunate part of the process.

I really don't know how to set this "right" and unfortunately, it sounds like an adult adoption is the only way? I wonder if an adoption attorney would have anything different to suggest?

Or I wonder if this might be told to the newspaper or local news channel staff to see what they uncover? Although I don't know you'd want your kids' lives made public like that.

You might consider figuring out how to make new laws..and fighting to get the law passed. Because it's the laws that prevent you from getting the changes that you want.

Posted by: Crick at 07/28/2006 12:45 PM

In 1976 I gave my own mother my two children ages 2 & 5 to watch while I moved from KS to Houston TX to look for work. I found a good job & was living with my sister. I was gone 2 months, sending cards & packages weekly to them both.

I met a nice gal there at work & we got an apt. big enough for my kids & her's which was on the way. I called my mom to have her bring my kids down from Kansas. She informed me they were now wards of the St of KS. I was being charged for child dept neglect. & abandonment. I told my boss I had to go fight to get my kids but I would be back. I left within hours from the shocking call. I got the charges dropped due to a social worker who tesified for me & my sister who said that my mother knew exactly where I was. Funny but when I left KS at 12 noon, the court papers against me were filed at 1 pm. so my mom only waited one hour before filing those charges against me. the story is a long enduring one which did not end well. I had a bad car accident & did severe damage to my once beautiful face. I no longer had a car, so my mother got a great attorney & without a criminal charge against me in this state there were no attorneys to help moms to get their children back. There were no Women's shelters or women's groups or anything except lawyers who loved to take children from single moms!

My mother & drunken stepfather ended up adopting my kids via illegal means. the attorney who helped them do this is now a District court judge for life. So I have been trying to get the adoption reversed. My kids are grown and yet we want our family back like it was before we were torn apart by powerful greedy drunken people with money.
Yet we were told all that can be done is an adult adoption and that is not what we want. we want our original birth certificates back like they were.
my mother is dead and my Stepdad & her got divorced before that he married some gal my age.. & they never did anything for my kids but mess them up. I have spent 3 times the years re-raising them or fixing the mess that my parents made of them... but the wounds are still there.. the bonds are chipped & cracked but not broken.
I cry all the time for the way things happened. They promised me that I would always be the kids mom.. it was all over me going to college & getting a good education, yet giving the kids protection, in case anything happened to me while I was in the process of doing so. they were to pay for my education. I never got one thin dime ... my kids got nothing.. teeth fixed, or health care nothing.

Not only that but the Jefferson Co SRS office placed in my mother's care home a KNOWN child sex offender and he raped my son from 7 years old to 10 ... even when he got caught he was just warned not to do it again and it was not reported. I only found out about it when I got my son back at 15 via the courts and some serious therapy!
Serious damage was done to my family by an illegal adoption by that I mean I was not able to sign anything of such degree of importance in my mental condition. this Attorney who is now a judge took me to Shawnee county to a judge who was known to have cancer & would be short lived.
Everyone kept me abay until 6 months past. then everyone answered their phones.. and the answer was;::: you made your bed now lay in it.

well I did not. I don't know where to turn I have searched for records & files but met brick walls. all things have been destroyed. the Attorney is a judge .. what can I do? he is guilty of cohersion & undue influence sp? told me not to tell the judge about school or the " I will always be mommy & get to come home for breaks & holidays" that kind of thing.. or she won't let us do this.
so he broke the law!

should I contact my Governor?

I think the State of Kansas owes my family ... at least to undo the adoption.. like they give pardons?
by the way
I am the only one left standing of those who accused me of abandonment & neglect.. I am sober & clean & look great.. my kids love me but the scars are still there as they were abused in the home of my mother.

I never dreamed in a million years that a mom would do this kind of thing to a child of their own just because they were moving away...
that is what it was all about.. I was moving the kids 800 miles away from her! so I lose them for their entire childhood.. I never had any more children ... I was too afraid someone would steal them.

chilipot4

that's my sad adoption story
would love someone to tell me if I can resolve this issue?

Posted by: chilipot4 at 07/28/2006 12:28 PM