[blparent] family and adoption

Thu Jun 30 20:22:20 UTC 2011

Oops!  I knew it was in one of those warm weather states.  *Smile.*

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: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:40 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] family and adoption

> It's in Florida.
> Barbara
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> 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
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> 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
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> "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
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>> 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!
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