North Carolina Relinquishment, Consent, Revocation laws Relinquishment - Consent - Time to Revoke North Carolina Who Must Consent: The mother. A man who was married to the mother or has legitimated the child. A guardian. The agency that placed the child for adoption. The guardian ad litem of an incompetent parent. Consent of Adoptee: A...
Organization Tips: Sticky Notes
Praises to the woman who invented sticky notes. If it wasn’t a woman, it was a man who had short term memory loss, PMS, foster children, or any combination thereof! What did we do before sticky notes? Well, we wrote things down on regular pieces of paper and promptly lost them. This works well for...
West Virginia Presumed (Putative) Father Laws Presumed (Putative) Fathers State-Specific Search Results West Virginia Does State have a Putative Father Registry: No Registry/Paternity Requirements to Receive Notice Statute: §§ 48-22-601(a); 49-3-1(b)(3) Putative father entitled to notice of adoption proceedings if he is claiming to...
Daycare to Kindergarten GROWING CONCERNS: A childrearing question-and-answer column with Martha Erickson of the University of Minnesota. Question: My six-year-old son has had an extremely difficult transition this year, moving from daycare to kindergarten. He doesn't listen and can't keep his hands to himself. Earlier...
Across Africa May 6, 2012, 7:31 am
I am going jump all over the board in this post because there are things that have happened in various areas. First, the good news! If any of you have been waiting for Sierra Leone to re-open, the day has come. On April 30, 2012, the government of Sierra Leone released a notification that they...
Ethiopian Adoption Remains the Same May 6, 2012, 6:56 am
What a fantastic morning to be blogging- it is one of those lazy mornings. I am snuggled up in my bed still. I have to say, "This is great!"
I have done some research on the state of the adoption program in Ethiopia and have found that once again there has been no change. This is such a...
Korea Shifting Adoption Program May 3, 2012, 4:46 pm
The Joint Council has posted a notice from the Korean Government regarding its adoption program. Prior to this announcement, the Korean officials announced that the adoption program in their country was going to shift away from intercountry adoption and focus on placing their children in-country....
An Adoptee Shares... Finding Me To all those over the years who told to me that I must feel lucky, I do. I wasn't aborted. I was given the chance to live and make mistakes. I was given an opportunity to believe in dreams and to...
More than a Memory One familiar issue most adoptive parents have is how to tell their children about their adoptions. Last night, at dinner, for the first time I had an idea of how adoptive parents feel when their...
Decision Points: Choosing Adoption for Your Baby My first order of business was to tell my mom what was going on. I had been away and Mother's ESP told her something was not right with me, but she couldn't get me to tell her what. I was ashamed....