birth parents
- New service will help link adult adoptees and birth parents-
The National Crittenton Foundation has launched a new service on their website called Crittenton Connections, which aims to help connect people looking for birth parents, adult adoptees or other family members. The service can be accessed via The Foundation’s website here. Crittenton Connections was created in response to the calls and emails received by the Crittenton family of agencies across the country and The National Crittenton Foundation from people looking for a family member. The service enables individuals who were involved at any point with a Crittenton agency (parents, children and family members) to post their contact information and to search for individuals who have also input information into the database. More information on the history of The National Crittenton Foundation is here.
- New service will help link adult adoptees and birth parents-
The National Crittenton Foundation has launched a new service on their website called Crittenton Connections, which aims to help connect people looking for birth parents, adult adoptees or other family members. The service can be accessed via The Foundation’s website here. Crittenton Connections was created in response to the calls and emails received by the Crittenton family of agencies across the country and The National Crittenton Foundation from people looking for a family member. The service enables individuals who were involved at any point with a Crittenton agency (parents, children and family members) to post their contact information and to search for individuals who have also input information into the database. More information on the history of The National Crittenton Foundation is here.
- Birth Parents: TAKE THIS SURVEY-
If you are a birth parent (mother or father) in an open or closed adoption who relinquished voluntarily or had your rights terminated, PLEASE TAKE THIS SURVEY. They are looking for 600 participants by December 1, 2008. Let's blow that number out of the water. Here's some info: The Surrender Survey Project is for parents (mother and fathers) who have voluntarily relinquished and/or had their rights (involuntarily) terminated. And so, in that way, it is all inclusive. More over, the questions pertain to both parents in closed and open adoption, not just one or the other. I know that there are some things that try to exclude one group or the other but this survey acknowledges both. In fact, this survey's success depends on answers from both closed and open adoption birth parents. Of special note: for parents that have relinquished more than one child, you are asked to take it once for each child relinquished. (Meaning, if you have placed two children, please take the survey twice, answering specifics for each individual child on each individual survey attempt.) (If you need a bit more info, read the birth/first parent blog. Or just take the survey!)
- The Spirit of Open Adoption
- When words get in the way-
When I wrote the note about language for this site I did that so that visitors would know exactly what first parent means and also to make it clear that first family members are present and valued here.
