[blparent] family and adoption

[Barbara Hammel]

It's in Florida.
Barbara



Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay 
any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose 
any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.--John 
F. Kennedy
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:10 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] family and adoption

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

--------------------------------------------------
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
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] family and adoption
>
> 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
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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!
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/pshald%40neb.rr.co
> m
>
>
>
>
>
> Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/jillbilly4%40comca
> st.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/rebecca.pickrell%40tasc.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/jopinto%40msn.com
>

_______________________________________________
blparent mailing list
blparent at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
blparent:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/poetlori8%40msn.com