Thanks to Billy Mac @ Critque my blog

I don't think he has a thing to do with foster adoption that I know of, but he liked this blog!

Here's a blog that will tug at the heart strings...it's a blog about adoptions...foster children...their stories...and everything else in between! People go through life sometimes with blinders on...trying to get by day by day...but when you stop to look on the other side of the tracks...it's easy to be taken back and it makes it clear that the struggle and strife you think you are experiencing is a picnic compared to what others are going through.

posted by Billy Mac @ 10/12/2006

If want him to review your blog, go here: Critique
and click on the email link on the right.

He's got lots of other blog listed about every subject imaginable! Nice work Mr. Billy Mac!

And Thanks!

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And back to another subject, the Unadoption story that hit the Washington Post several days ago.

Lots of bloggers have been talking about it, and my blog (as well as other blogs) got quoted by BlogHer blogger Mary Tsao. Thanks Mary!

Mary started her blog by stating:

The Washington Post ran a story yesterday about a Helen Briggs, a foster mother in Virginia who is trying to rescind her adoption of one of her former foster children on the claim that caseworkers for the boy failed to disclose the extent of his troubled past.

Briggs case is a complex one that reveals some serious flaws in the systems that rule and regulate our country's adoption process. Per the WaPo article, states have "a patchwork of laws and written disclosure policies. Some states, such as Texas and Ohio, give adoptive parents access to a child's entire case file. In Maryland, social workers are required to prepare a written background summary and ask adoptive parents to sign it. Virginia's disclosure policy has no written requirement."

Because Briggs is in Virginia, this case is one of "she said - caseworker said." Briggs claims the state didn't provide full disclosure; some caseworkers for the state feel she is lying.

Then she went on to mention several blogs about this article and what bloggers are saying.

Naomi over on the Jewish blog also got a mention!


Mary's full blog is here:

ByeBye Baby