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Gladney Center for Adoption
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Gladney Center for Adoption
Phone: 1 252-756-6064Address:
217 Commerce Street
Greenville, NC 27858
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currently adopting from Gladney
My husband and I have now been approved and waiting with Gladney in Texas for 17 months. Overall Gladney has their stuff together and does everything perfect - except - telling the truth. They didn't right out lie, but they left out information and made everything sound better at orientation. They said a statment I'll never forget to a room full of 40 couples. It was Nov 2006 and they said "most of you will have a baby by the next holiday season." Well that melted my heart and I thought if they are willing to say that, they must be sure. The average wait of 12 months has been right for some I guess. I see people on the website get babies after a few months, 6 months whenever, but my husband and I along with about 10 other couples have been waiting a long time. They also said they were so great at counseling women, birthmoms almost never changed their mind, well we went to get our baby boy in October 2007 as excited and happy as I've ever been in my life only to learn they changed their mind. We were offered one I'm sorry and that was it, nothing to help us coap with the pain. Oh and the lie "we really try to get your profile out there after something like this happens." Its a very very difficult thing that I still believe will become the most wonderful thing I ever do, but know that the agency makes things sunnier than they are.
I'm also currently waiting
I'm also currently waiting with Gladney, and while I understand the frustration in your review, I have two comments.
#1 - From what you wrote, I don't see where they haven't told the truth. "Most of you" and "Almost Never" - these are not guarantees of placement or a short wait time. Having sat through the same orientation, been told the same things - no one ever promised anything. Quite the opposite, we were told they couldn't guarantee anything - and were also told that other agencies may be able to move faster. I think that sometimes when you really want something to happen, you hear what you want to hear. No one can promise you a certain wait time, or that a mother isn't going to change her mind. I'm sorry you are still waiting, but how - really - is that Gladney's fault?
#2 - Giving an agency a bad review because you've waited longer than you want - isn't that sort of irresponsible? There are a lot of unethical agencies out there, ripping people off and steamrolling over birthmothers. To review an agency that actually does have their stuff together, does do things ethically, just because you've had a long wait - well, I just think that is wrong.
Re: also waiting
Thank you for letting me know people out there are happy with Gladney - that reassures me. However, everything in my statement is truthful or denotes that it is my opinion. I said "Overall Gladney has their stuff together and does everything perfect." However my individual experience with my one-on-one attention has not been what I expected after orientation. I do not other agency experience to compare and may go through Gladney again, but I do think I would not have had such a hard time if I would have believed up front that everything would likely not go perfect. There are specific details that I'm not going into on this post that were not spelled out at orientation. Again I stated above that they did not directly lie, but when dealing with peoples lives and emotions, shouldn't everyone get as close to the facts as possible? I'd rather hear it could be 2 years than, it will probably be less than a year. I understand they were trying to draw us in, and that's my only warning with this post. My caseworker has answered every question if I asked, the fees were all straight forward, no surprises and they are 100% for creating happy families. They do however sugar coat things in the beginning. Some are luckier than others. Perhaps my rating should have been a 3. People can read this post and get the facts, the stars are not all they see.