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The Fight for Isaiah, Round Two

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In a previous article, I described how we received a surprise phone call that informed us that the birth mother of the four boys that we were about to adopt had given birth to yet another boy. We quickly agreed that we wanted him. Talk about a surprise pregnancy! However, there was one problem. The first state social worker that saw that he would be available ignored the fact that his siblings were about to be adopted and placed him in another home. Her reasoning was that Nancy and I were older parents. And, she noticed that early on we … Continue reading →

Types of Adoption Part One: Domestic Infant Adoption

There are three main types of adoption: domestic U.S. infant adoption, adoption from foster care/state welfare agencies, and international adoption. Domestic infant adoptions, in many states, may occur in one of two ways: through an adoption agency, or privately arranged by a lawyer. One element these adoptions usually share is that the birthparent(s) have some say in who will parent their child. Many also include some degree of “openness”—that is, birth and adoptive parents have some information about each other, identifying or not, and usually plan for some form of ongoing contact, whether directly or through letters relayed by an … Continue reading →

Traveling to Our Daughter, Part Two

We went to the room number we’d been given at the assigned time. It was a large room with many young women working at desks. When one approached, I said my daughter’s (Korean) name and she went to get my daughter’s caseworker. While we waited, a woman entered with a baby on her back, tied to her back with a podaegi, the quilt-like traditional Korean baby carrier. I recognized both of them from the video we’d been sent. I bowed and said hello in Korean. Then we did a lot of nodding and smiling until the social worker came. I … Continue reading →