[blparent] Question about adopting

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Dear Shannon,

Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for blind prospective parents to run into 
problems with adoption agencies who are not familiar with blind people.  It 
might help to put them in contact with some competent blind parents so they 
can see firsthand that blindness is not an obstacle to being a good mother 
or dad.  Where do you live?  If you contact the NFB president in your state, 
he or she can probably put you in contact with parents who will be happy to 
help.

Debbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannan Zinck" <shannanzinck at gmail.com>
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: [blparent] Question about adopting


>I don't really know if anyone can answer this or not but, we had our first
> home visit from adoption services today and unfortunately me being 
> visually
> impaired and my husband being blind seems to be the biggest concern they
> have. I guess my question is does anyone have any idea how we would 
> convince
> them that we can handle a child or how to ease their minds on this 
> subject.
> I really don't want this to become a big enough issue that we have to 
> fight
> for this child. Everything else seems fine but, this one point and some 
> how
> I feel like I'm being penalized for being born this way even though there
> was nothing that could be done about it. Any ideas would be really great.
> thanks.
>
> -- 
> Shannan Zinck
> Survival is letting GOD take over!!!
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