[blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted

[Barbara Hammel]

It was Bethany Christian Services.  I'm really not sure about the prejudice 
thing.  If they were it was not blatant.
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.

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From: "Sherry DeFrancesco" <sdefrancesco at optonline.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 9:50 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted

>
> 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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