A long time coming...

About a year ago the domestic adoption team at Adoptions Together started talking about creating a blog for several different reasons.  This discussion was ongoing - and after some planning, and lots of adoption plans, we finally found some time to make the site a reality.  We hope this blog will:

• Provide a safe place for birth parents to talk honestly about the ins and outs of making an adoption plan.
• Provide information and support for women and men who are thinking about adoption as an option for their family.
• Give adoptive families some insight into how birth parents feel about adoption in general and help them understand the positive aspects of open adoption.
• Provide support for birth parents from Adoptions Together who can not meet in supportive groups due to financial, transportation or other challenges.
• Provide links to resources that may be helpful to all members of the adoption experience.
• To challenge stereotypes about adoption created by television and movies.

We will use several authors, mainly adoption counselors at Adoptions Together, to create posts that generate discussions.  Hopefully we will also have posts by adoptive families and birth parents who want to share their experiences.  We welcome and encourage comments on all posts, but reserve the rights to take down any comments that are disrespectful. 

Comments

[Jenna]

Let me get this straight.

Someone who isn't a birth parent is writing a blog on the birth parent experience.

Just another agency, pushing their own agenda, as made blatantly evident by your wording on your second post which refers to those making an adoption plan as birth parents. Wrong. They're not birth parents until that TPR is signed. Until that point, they are, first and foremost, parents making a parenting decision for their child.

Sigh.

[Kate]

To clarify, this is a forum created as a space for birthparents and we hope to have posts by birthparents in the future. I am clear about my role and talk of my experiences when working with birthparents. My post reflected my views about adoption, parenting and attitudes. It is written as a conversation starter. This blog was created as an open forum for our clients and anyone else who may need or wish to lend support to the process. Our agenda is to provide information that is broader than just an agency view. Thanks for your comment.

[Kate]

I also wanted to direct you to the "about" section which gives a better expination of the intent of this blog.
Thanks!