[blparent] family and adoption

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Casey Anthony is a 25-year-old mother who is on trial for aledgedly killing 
her child in California.  There's been a lot of publicity.

Jo Elizabeth

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, 
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into 
advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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From: "PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:23 AM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] family and adoption

> Who is Casey Anthony? I've heard that name somewhere but can't figure it 
> out. Enlighten me, off list if that's more appropriate.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of jill
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] family and adoption
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> Or even worse, there are young mothers like casey Anthony.... how 
> fortunate
> all of our children are!
> Jill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Peggy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] family and adoption
>
> Wow these stories amaze me.  I'm lucky I had the doctors I've had over the
> years then because no one ever questioned my ability to have children. 
> Have
>
> you sterilized oh my!!  Amazing how people see things though, I was doing
> foster care for a long time but then all of a sudden they wouldn't let me
> anymore ... they stopped calling me to take in children and when I called
> for an explanation they wouldn't or couldn't give me one.  One person 
> would
> say it was something I'd done another would blame it on my husband ... 
> never
>
> ever got a straight answer.  Blindness maybe??  But yet there are foster
> parents out there who just want the money and don't care about these
> children at all!!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: jan wright
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:34 PM
> To: blparent
> Subject: [blparent] family and adoption
>
> While my family questioned my capabilities, they eventually had to
> leave me alone because i was determined and had asked them to leave if
> they could not say anything nice.
> But, i had a doctor who, after i had my fourth, suggested to my
> parents that they get a lawyer and try to have me sterilized.
> And, I had a pediatrician who suggested that i give my fourth child up
> for adoption. She knew a mother who was bored and looking for a baby
> to adopt.
> A strange twist, when Kyler (my fourth) was 2yo, I met this woman. she
> adopted two other children and had two teens. honestly, she was not
> very  emotionally stable and she had this hero horn blowing complex.
> And, to top it off, she was not very blind friendly and had a 4yo
> blind adopted daughter. i found out later that she was the one who my
> pediatrician was suggesting adopt my son.
> UGGGG!
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