[blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted

[Sherry DeFrancesco]

Thanks Barbara--Bethany Christian Services pops up all over the internet 
when I do different searches. However, we have not tried them yet, but will 
check them out further-thank you :)
Sherry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Seeking parents who are blind and who adopted


> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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