Comments on: My Letter to NBC http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2006/08/29/my-letter-to-nbc/ Writing Our Ever-Evolving Story Sat, 19 May 2012 16:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Debbie Bechler http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2006/08/29/my-letter-to-nbc/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 Debbie Bechler Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:18:54 +0000 https://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/my-letter-to-nbc/#comment-1005 I'm doing a report on Adoption, A positive Option, and focusing on information, education and help for birthmom's and for parents of young women who are pregnant.(for a class) I'm proposing that if we (as American's) would be more aware of ALL the help, information and even now OPENNESS in adoption - maybe more women would view this beautiful, mysterious thing called adoption, as an option. I looked up Oprah & Dateline NBC and included adoption in the search engine and got your site. I'm touched by your honesty, your heart to learn and the way you Mother... I am an adoptive parent of 2 children(11 year old Nicole and 8 year old Derek) who we are in caring and very open adoptions with. We adore their birthfamilies and, obviously, find our mutual love to be Nicole & Derek - but they also love my other 2 children, who came later - Brandon & Kelsey. It's an amazing family (and extended family) that we are in awe of everyday, but we don't see a lot of these healthy and beautiful outcomes on television (which is why I'm writing the report). I will e-mail our story to Dateline! I’m doing a report on Adoption, A positive Option, and focusing on information, education and help for birthmom’s and for parents of young women who are pregnant.(for a class) I’m proposing that if we (as American’s) would be more aware of ALL the help, information and even now OPENNESS in adoption – maybe more women would view this beautiful, mysterious thing called adoption, as an option. I looked up Oprah & Dateline NBC and included adoption in the search engine and got your site. I’m touched by your honesty, your heart to learn and the way you Mother… I am an adoptive parent of 2 children(11 year old Nicole and 8 year old Derek) who we are in caring and very open adoptions with. We adore their birthfamilies and, obviously, find our mutual love to be Nicole & Derek – but they also love my other 2 children, who came later – Brandon & Kelsey. It’s an amazing family (and extended family) that we are in awe of everyday, but we don’t see a lot of these healthy and beautiful outcomes on television (which is why I’m writing the report). I will e-mail our story to Dateline!

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]]> By: DeAnna http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2006/08/29/my-letter-to-nbc/comment-page-1/#comment-1006 DeAnna Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:53:22 +0000 https://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/my-letter-to-nbc/#comment-1006 I totally agree with your thoughts on this. I could probably write on this one for a while, but I'll try not to be too long... We have 2 beautiful little girls (through adoption) Our second one is 5 months old and a couple months before she was born we actually did go through a scam. We had several people give us their opinions on this - some would say, "well maybe the mother decided she didn't want to place the baby" (wow, as if that wouldn't have been something we would have thought of but considering she was working with two different agencies and getting living expenses from 2 couples, which is actually illegal....), or they might say maybe she "got her life together" (which really frustrates me like expectant mothers/birthmothers all must in trouble horrible people) or then I had a friend who adopted from Guatemala say "have you ever thought of adopting internationally?" (once again having all the wrong ideas about domestic adoption - probably due to hearing only the bad stories) The truth is we had already been blessed through adoption which maybe is why less than two months after we went through the scam (to which we also quit working with that agency/attorney because I don't believe he was doing things ethically either) we were able to adopt our second beautiful little girl. When they told us about the mother, when she was due and that she was wanting to see our profile, I called my husband and said "You need to tell me now if you are ready to go ahead with adoption, because I refuse to show her our profile, have her decide she would like to place with us and then decide we aren't ready because of what we've gone through - in essence we would be doing to her what was done to us" I have heard of those stories as well. I have no idea what it is like to be a birthmother, but I know that I love our girls birthmothers and I get real defensive of them when people want to think the negative (due partly to what they've heard in the media.) I can't imagine my life without my girls so I can only imagine what they must be going through. Thanks for posting this! I totally agree with your thoughts on this. I could probably write on this one for a while, but I’ll try not to be too long… We have 2 beautiful little girls (through adoption) Our second one is 5 months old and a couple months before she was born we actually did go through a scam. We had several people give us their opinions on this – some would say, “well maybe the mother decided she didn’t want to place the baby” (wow, as if that wouldn’t have been something we would have thought of but considering she was working with two different agencies and getting living expenses from 2 couples, which is actually illegal….), or they might say maybe she “got her life together” (which really frustrates me like expectant mothers/birthmothers all must in trouble horrible people) or then I had a friend who adopted from Guatemala say “have you ever thought of adopting internationally?” (once again having all the wrong ideas about domestic adoption – probably due to hearing only the bad stories) The truth is we had already been blessed through adoption which maybe is why less than two months after we went through the scam (to which we also quit working with that agency/attorney because I don’t believe he was doing things ethically either) we were able to adopt our second beautiful little girl. When they told us about the mother, when she was due and that she was wanting to see our profile, I called my husband and said “You need to tell me now if you are ready to go ahead with adoption, because I refuse to show her our profile, have her decide she would like to place with us and then decide we aren’t ready because of what we’ve gone through – in essence we would be doing to her what was done to us” I have heard of those stories as well. I have no idea what it is like to be a birthmother, but I know that I love our girls birthmothers and I get real defensive of them when people want to think the negative (due partly to what they’ve heard in the media.) I can’t imagine my life without my girls so I can only imagine what they must be going through. Thanks for posting this!

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