[blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted

[Sherry DeFrancesco]

Barbara,
One more question, if I may...Would you hsare the name/location of the 
agency that you went through to adopt your children, assuming that they were 
not discriminatory about your visual impairment?

Thanks much, Sherry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted


> Have you tried Guatemala?  That seems to be a popular one with the 
> adoption agency we went through.  Granted, all the ones I know are sighted 
> but I'm sure they can't be a country without a blind person.  What about 
> Korea or Vietnam, also?  Those are the only countries I can think of off 
> the bat. Mine are from China.  We got them a year before the requirements 
> changed.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Sherry DeFrancesco" <sdefrancesco at optonline.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:43 PM
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted
>
>> Dear Blind Parent Listers,
>>
>> We are a married couple that is totally blind, and have been trying to 
>> adopt a child that is blind or visually impaired for the past two years. 
>> It has been a long and exhausting journey due to misconceptions and false 
>> beliefs about the abilities of parents who are blind. We have a New York 
>> state Foster Parent License, and a completed home study for international 
>> adoption. We have tried the New York foster care system, as well as 
>> International adoption agencies. New York state did not locate a child 
>> that is blind or vision impaired in the NY state foster care system, and 
>> we have been turned down by China, India and Russia. There are thousands 
>> of blind and vision impaired children out there all over the world who 
>> need loving homes including right here in the United States. If anyone 
>> out there has any information where we can find blind or vision impaired 
>> children in the U.S. in need of a forever family, or successfully adopted 
>> a child either domestically or internationally, and can lend some 
>> advice/guidance and/or resources to locate the support and understanding 
>> that we will need to complete a successful adoption, please contact me 
>> privately if you are willing at:
>> sdefrancesco at optonline.net
>>
>> I am also willing to discuss on the list if appropriate, however, a 
>> private conversation may be more appropriate-either way is fine with me.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best wishes ~ Sherry DeFrancesco
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