Walking Through a Minefield
People who are fostering children to adopt them get very wary of almost everyone that they have to deal with in the system. We had an adoption agency working on our behalf and I was very trusting of our assigned worker. We went to that agency solely because of her. She was very experienced and we relied on her extensively. I could not rely on the head of her agency though. If the agency was having a bad month financially, she would withhold funds that were intended for us to balance her books. Some payments were received several months late. … Continue reading