tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1353178627219781934.post6871070759377323991..comments2023-10-28T07:46:43.539-07:00Comments on One Love, One Family: What the Today Show forgot to mentionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1353178627219781934.post-5839784736479169792013-09-10T06:34:08.769-07:002013-09-10T06:34:08.769-07:00Many, Many families re-home, or disrupt without en...Many, Many families re-home, or disrupt without ensuring that the families who are receiving the child have a homestudy or even a background check. A child can be relinquished to another family with a simple Power of Attorney. That's it. I've seen it personally. As a church employee who works in the adoption field I have received calls from desperate parents who would literally give their adopted son or daughter to anyone who simply attended a church. This is a true and BIG problem. There is a need for stricter regulations on adoption disruption and agencies need to amp up their post placement. There are many solutions out there and the adoption community absolutely cannot pretend this is not a serious issue. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1353178627219781934.post-15088875868301155752013-09-10T03:58:07.826-07:002013-09-10T03:58:07.826-07:00Thank you for making it clear (to me, an adoptive ...Thank you for making it clear (to me, an adoptive mother of 2 , almost 3) that this horrible story to which you respond is NOT THE NORM. Yes, it is still horrible, but then so is any abuse. Leave it to the evil one to try to turn such a beautiful God-driven choice into something foul. Your family is beautiful and so is international adoption.Tracihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01909065088310322554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1353178627219781934.post-43557848745194451412013-09-09T22:08:16.603-07:002013-09-09T22:08:16.603-07:00Your family is beautiful! I am a single mom of 6 ...Your family is beautiful! I am a single mom of 6 of which 3 are biological and 3 adopted. The things I've been thru as a mom of bio have been, in many ways, as hard as what I've been thru with my adopted kids. I'll never regret the decision I made to adopt anymore than I regret giving birth to my bio kids. Is nay of it easy?? Oh, no, but they are all so worth anything we've gone thru.Nanettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03578832603414450664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1353178627219781934.post-59648436823398929302013-09-09T21:32:17.461-07:002013-09-09T21:32:17.461-07:00I haven't seen the show . . . and don't kn...I haven't seen the show . . . and don't know if I really want to.<br /><br />We re-homed one of our children 4 years ago, after we discovered that he had been abusing his youngest sister for many years (in the village, in the orphanage, and in our home). They should have never been adopted together. We could not protect our 5 youngest children . . . and we knew that our youngest daughter would never heal if we kept her abuser in our home.<br /><br />He was actually excited to go to a new family. He has severe RAD and had never bonded with us. He came to America with all kinds of dreams of having anything and everything he ever wanted. Being adopted by a family with 10 children already, and having to share anything and everything, was not his dream come true.<br /><br />He was adopted by a family with no young children at home, and only 2 older brothers in college. It has been a good fit for him. We have kept in contact a couple of times per year. <br /><br />We know that the Lord directed us to bring these children home, but know that his "final and forever family" was not to be with us.<br /><br />The orphanage lied to us . . . about his age (in reality he was 15 when we brought him home) . . . about his emotional needs . . . about his character . . . about his behavior. The whole adoption of all 3 children was so filled with lies . . . and we adopted from a "Christian" orphanage. So.So.Sad.<br /><br />Child Trafficking? You've got to be kidding!<br /><br />We are just parents, wanting to help, wanting to provide a family for an orphan, and realizing sometimes that we are not the right family for this child.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing!<br /><br />Laurel<br />mama of 12Laurelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17253303288242135440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1353178627219781934.post-45137579149418073652013-09-09T20:16:34.521-07:002013-09-09T20:16:34.521-07:00I think the media is doing this because it is a ho...I think the media is doing this because it is a hot topic after the situation with the mother who sent her child back to Russia or the other recent story of the mother who adopted the African child and did not bond with the child. They do not mention the other 77,000 or more sucussful adoption out of China or those around the world. It is Satans tool to not bring these children home. He doesn't want these children to have homes because he knows they are most likely destined for many issues that will lead them down the wrong path if they stay in orphanages. I agree with you being honest about what is going on helps other families understand that they are not alone and that this is a decision with long term conscequences. likeschocolatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01733431135937009206noreply@blogger.com