On Tuesday, I got a call from “Unknown” as I was picking up Jackson. My grandmother comes up as “Unknown” and one of her friends is in hospice, so I thought it might be bad news. Instead, it was a woman from Adoption Network Law Center. Confused, I explained that I was picking up my … Continue reading
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Why Facilitators Don’t Exist in Robyn’s Adoption Land
In my last post, I wrote that facilitators would not exist in Robyn’s Adoption Land. First, let’s explain what a facilitator is, and why it is not an agency. American Adoptions (an agency) defines “adoption facilitator” as an “unlicensed organizations or individuals offering adoption services, which is illegal in 20 states.” Adoption.com, an information site, … Continue reading
Jackson’s Adoption Story, Briefly
(I’m converting our domain, rmcsquared.net, into our professional web site and moving all personal content to this blog. Eventually, I’ll have to figure out what to do with it and how to organize it. Until then, I’m just creating a series of posts with the .net content.) Robyn has always known that she wanted to … Continue reading
Our Awful Experience with Adoption Network Law Center
(I’m converting our domain, rmcsquared.net, into our professional web site and moving all personal content to this blog. Eventually, I’ll have to figure out what to do with it and how to organize it. Until then, I’m just creating a series of posts with the .net content.) We adopted through Adoption Network Law Center, located … Continue reading
Open Adoption Roundtable #18: Professionals
This post was originally published on AdoptionBlogs.com on August 3, 2010. Republished here with permission. The Open Adoption Roundtable is a series of occasional writing prompts about open adoption. It’s designed to showcase of the diversity of thought and experience in the open adoption community. This month’s prompt: We each interacted with at least one … Continue reading
Irony
(Originally published on LiveJournal) So, I have a web site, and there’s a decent amount about adoption on it. I occasionally (like, 2 or 3 times a year) get requests to add people or services as links from the site. I got one today: Hello, This is a request to include our website link on your website page at http://www.rmcsquared.net/The_Chittister_Family/Links.html … Continue reading
What We Know Now That We Wished We Knew Then
(I’m converting our domain, rmcsquared.net, into our professional web site and moving all personal content to this blog. Eventually, I’ll have to figure out what to do with it and how to organize it. Until then, I’m just creating a series of posts with the .net content.) Adoption Network Law Center is an overpriced facilitator/agency, and their … Continue reading
Roller Coaster Ride
Oct. 2nd, 2005 at 8:16 PM The roller coaster is such the overdone metaphor. Unfortunately, so much of lives are up and down and twisty turny that the roller coaster is an apt metaphor.Last month, mid-September, Cheryl from ANLC called and said that a birthmom* was interested in us. We spent about an hour on … Continue reading
Never Have Bridesmaids
(originally published on LiveJournal) Finally, I have decreed that I will update this web journal every Thursday. We’ll see how long that lasts. Adoption News: We have chosen an agency (Adoption Network Law Center) and a home study agency (The Family Network). We’re mostly done with the paperwork. I have started to choose pictures for … Continue reading
Step Two
(originally published on LiveJournal) Today, Max and I decided which agency will be taking our money so they can provide us with services that will result in us adopting a baby. To me, that’s huge. It means that I’m done with TWO YEARS of research on types of adoption, agencies, attorneys, birthparents, and related material. … Continue reading
Holding to the Ground 