[blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted

[Amber Boggs]

have you tried napol? Spelling? Its where mount everist is located. I no 
Eric Weinmayer who is blind adopted a little boy from there a year or two 
ago. Good luck on your quest. Can you adopt out side of newyork?
Amber Boggs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherry DeFrancesco" <sdefrancesco at optonline.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted


>
> Hi Barbara,
> Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, since the Hague Convention, 
> Guatamala and Vietnam are currently not in agreement with the U.S. and 
> adoptions are not permitted at this time. Guatamala does not meet the 
> Hague requirements, and I am not entirely certain why there are 
> restrictions with Vietnam. It is all politics and bureaucracy as compared 
> to years ago. Korea is slowly dwindling down in terms of adoption to U.S. 
> citizens, or any country except for their own; and are  expected to stop 
> all adoption by 2012. So, we have explored these options already. We are 
> now looking further into Ukraine. Perhaps, this will go well. There are no 
> "restrictions" in their laws that restrict parents who are blind, but this 
> could be because they do not believe that blind people would even apply :(
> We shall see. It has been very difficult finding adoptive parents who are 
> blind; apparently there are not that many, or perhaps there are and I just 
> cannot find them...
> China asked questions like "how much can they see?" Does one of them see?" 
> "Well, if one of them out of the two has vision in at least one eye, then 
> we will accept them"
>
> This journey to adoption, for us, has been a nightmare, however, an 
> incredible learning experience. There will be a light at the end of this 
> tunnel--it is not in our nature to give up easily, or at all :)
>
> Again, thank you for your response and suggestions :)
> Best wishes, 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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