I have sat back and watched adoptive parents slander our agency's name for some time now. It is really sad because I need to be working on finding a match and making adoptions happen for these people, but now I am reduced to spending a good portion of my day surfing the internet to defend myself.
Many of the statements that have been made about us by prior clients are listed as anonymous so I can't answer to every statement but some of the statments I can answer to because I know who you are.
Thank you, Amy, for being brave enough for at least listing your name. I will start with you first. It is true that you have had to wait a long time for a baby and have had three failed matches as you listed in your story. We are always very upfront with clients when they sign up with us and explain that birth mothers do have a right to change their mind about an adoption. Everyone on our staff works very hard to make these placments go through, but sometimes there is just nothing we can do. Any adoption professional will agree. Your last failed placement was particularly heart breaking because you did travel for so long, but that is adoption. You got to talk to this birthmother before she delivered and you felt good about her placing as well-or at least that is what you told our caseworker. The caseworker in this case put in countless hours with this birth mother and even went to her house (in a terribly dangerous part of TN) at night and banged on her door trying to get the birth mother to face her. She also left countless messages on her phone attempting to counsel with her. Molly is one of our finest caseworkers and I feel she did everything possible to make this placement work for you.
I am totally fine with clients who want to tell their story about Adoption Advantage, but please remember to include all details such as the fact that you are gender specific. We always tell clients that when they are gender specific that the adoption process will take much longer. You are very close to being matched because you are the only couple on our list for what you want. So please hang in there, you will get a child. As far as not calling you after it happened: We have had clients in your situation who get mad at us for calling and clients who get mad at us for not calling. It seems that no matter what I have my staff do, someone is always mad. My approach is to give you a while to work through some of your grief and then to call and check on you. However, you know that anyone in our staff is available for you and you are welcome to pick up the phone and call us for support if you want it.
Katie-I believe you are listed as anonymous, but I know it is you because you are the only client I have threatened to sue. However you left out part of your story as well. I do not have a problem with you telling truthful things about our agency, but you have contacted several clients and have told them, or written false information about us. If you continue to do that I have no other choice but to bring legal action against you. Please tell your story-but tell the truth. The fact is you signed up with our agency and got a baby very fast, I believe it was less than 3 months. It took a bit longer than normal to finalize your adoption because of some legal issues regarding your case that the agency had no control over. However your adoption was finalized. The other statements that you have made regarding the birth mother of your child and other statements are false. Those are the things that I asked you to discontinue saying; not truthful things that happened in your case.
Looking for Hope-I am sorry I do not know who you are. I am sorry that you have had to wait so long. However, I can tell you that we show all of our families many times a month and your turn will come and hopefully soon. It is true that we do not require the funds up front. Families can pay the funds up front and if they do then they recieve a 10% waiver of fees. So it is the client's option. I do find it hard to believe that you have not talked to a caseworker or me in a year and a half. We do keep notes on every client and I do not have a client who has not talked to us in a year and a half. Again, you are always welcome to pick up the phone and ask for me or our director, Ed. We will be more than happy to talk to you. I urge you to call us so we can discuss why it has been so long and you have not been offered a match. For instance I wonder if the criteria that you set is making it difficult to find a match for you? Please remember that we first have to meet your criteria and then find a birth mother who is willing to match with you. Perhaps some updating on your portfolio would help? So, again I urge you to call and talk to us. Posting on this site is not going to help you and is only contributing to the fears that all adoptive parents have and I cannot help you unless you talk to me.
David-I do know who you are and I welcome anyone to call licensing as well. You can call Shirley Preston in the Little Rock office and Debbie Childress in the Tennessee office. I will be happy to provide those numbers for you. These ladies have been working with us since we have been licensed and know our history so please make sure you talk to someone in DHS who has the correct information. As far as calling other adoption agencies and attorneys in the state: Adoption is a highly competitive field. While we are not in the habit of saying bad things about other agencies there are many who will. Adoption Advantage has been very successful in placing children in the state of Arkansas and many small agencies have stopped their domestic program because they cannot recruit the number of birth mothers that we do. We spend a lot of advertising dollars to recruit these birthmothers that other agencies and attorneys are not willing to spend. We also work 24/7 to take care of them and many agencies and attorneys are not willing to do that either. Of course those same agencies would love to have your business so be careful who you get information from or it could cause you to lose out on a very good situation.
I appreciate all of the potential clients checking in to us. It is always my desire to give you factual, up to date information. However please be aware that usually people who post on the internet are usually people who are angry and hurt. Much of the time, in adoption, when a birth mother changes her mind a client becomes very angry. Since they cannot get to the birth mother, then the target is us. It is very unfortunate because I have a wonderful staff and we all work very hard to make adoptions happen.
We are not a "scam". We have been practising for 16 years and have placed close to 400 children. We are licensed in two states and if there was so much bad against us, that was true, then why would we keep getting our license renewed?
And finally, thank you to the few people who took enough time out of their day to take up for us. I welcome and encourage anyone to email or call me if they would like for me to answer any questions. My number is 501-376-7778.
.......I have sat back and watched adoptive parents slander our agency's name for some time now. It is really sad because I need to be working on finding a match and making adoptions happen for these people, but now I am reduced to spending a good portion of my day surfing the internet to defend myself.
Really, Isn’t the owner a lawyer? Can he not stop it? How good of a lawyer is he?
If you are doing nothing wrong, why are so many people slandering you?
Your reputation should be your defense, if you are reduced to surfing the net there might be a problem.
I am responding to this as an outsider in the adoption "game" as it seems to be described here, but as a friend who has watched someone I love go through an entire year of heartache that is partially the responsibility of Adoption advantage. Come on people..read between the lines! 'first of all, if the director of this agency is spending much of her time online defending herself, isn't that a potential red flag? Also, let's remember that by the time most couples come to the decision of pursuing adoption they have already had their hearts broekn by infertility and are making much of their decisions driven by emotion. You dont' think that adoption agencies aren't aware of that? Of course people will put money into something like this when their hearts are aching so deeply. What about taking some responsibility for the way this process is done. Why is it necessary to get a couple so emotionally involved prior to any kind of paperwork being signed and months before a baby is even born. Of course a birth Mom has the right to change her mind, I do not think anyone here argues with that..that is precisely why it is cruel and unethical, in my opinion, to "hook" these couples months prior to birth and require birth mother expenses be paid prior to the adoption being finalized. What happened to the old fashioned way of adoption where a couple is not matched until after the birth and the mother has already left the scenario? I have had several family members who were adopted as infants and there wasn't this "matching" process prior to birth. They were called by the agency after a baby was born and told that there was a baby if they wanted to adopt it. The emotional scars this leaves on people when they are invested for several months and then it falls through are unforgiveable and unnecessary and you bet they are hurt and angry. I think any normal person would be and ot just say "that's adoption", that is unacceptable to me. My guess is that your agency would not be able to survive financially if it wasn't done this way because of the money you spend on "recruitment" and "advertising". What is really going on here.
Donna, just because you have gotten your license renewed does not mean you operate a good business. There are plenty of licensed physicians, daycares, and therapists out there I would not recommend to anyone either. By the waydid you check with your attorney regarding privacy laws prior to getting online and posting confidential information about your client's cases? You might want to rethink that one.
To potential adoptive families, as anyone would say, do your research and think long and hard about this pre-matching idea and think about it from all potential angles. I wish you all luck in your journey.
For those who think that pre matching is a bad idea, you obviously don't realize that any woman has a hard time working in her last trimester. The majority of the birth mother calls that come in to adoption agencies are women in their last trimester and they cannot financially or emotionally support themselves, never the less, support a child. Agencies act as a mediator between the two parties. They provide adoptive parents with children and they assure that they can financially and emotionally support a child when the biological parents cannot. They male sure that the birth mothers are cared for and provide them with social and/or professional counseling. There are matches that happen after birth, and as a caseworker for an agency, I can tell you that these situations are welcomed by both my agency and our clients. Although these calls are few and far between...they do happen. If we only advertised to women who have already had the baby and are looking to place the child, there would not be as many placements and the birth parents would resort to other agencies or worse. Do you think that agencies should not reach out to these ladies who are pregnant and needing help? Also, potential clients are informed of the matching process before they sign or pay anything. So, maybe you are the one who needs to do your homework. Why should age, education or your origin have anything to do with ones humility or humanity? If someone wants to find a child who has already been born and needs a family...check with your local department of human services/ division of child and family services. You will find that there are thousands of children, already born, who need loving families. Do you think that if someone reached out to the parents of these children before they were born...that maybe...just maybe...they wouldn't be sitting in foster care for months to years with no sense of stability. Ummm....I wonder? Oh, and just so no red flags go up, I am taking personal time out of my lunch break to respond to this nonsense. God bless you all and I will pray for you!
You are a good friend for caring so much. I understand that adoption is probably not familiar to you so I would like to respond to a couple of your points. 1.) Why do couples have to be "matched" with a birth mother-why can't parents just be called and told there was a baby to adopt if they wanted it".
I am adopted and so is my sister who is eleven years older than I am. She was adopted as an infant and I was not adopted until I was an older child. As a child, I grew up knowing that I had family "out there" but could not connect with them until I was an adult. That was very painful for both myself and my birth mother. She did not get to choose the family I went to. I have to live with that, but mother's and children, in this day do not. Thankfully because our social system has evloved so that birth mothers are given the chance to get to know the family that will be caring for her child and children have a way to re-connect with birth families later in their life when they are mature enough to handle it. While this may make it harder on parents who have to endure disruptions (which I am so heartbroken for those who do) it allows birth mothers to make a good decision for their child and to actually feel good about it. To not go away thinking that a cold, unfeeling adoption agency or attorney "snatched their child away and gave it to someone they did not know". That is an actual comment from a birth mother who went through an "Old Fashioned" adoption. Even though most children who are adopted are raised by wonderful parents, there is always a wound present in knowing that you could not be raised by your biological family to some degree. It helps to know that your parents met your birth mother and heard from your birth mother that she loved you and made the best decision for you on what she had at the moment. It helps to know that your birth mother chose the perfect family, in her opinion for you to grow up in. It is very difficult to place a child for adoption. I have never met a birth mother who "wanted" to place her child. They always feel that they are doing the best they can for their child. Our agency, and most professionals in adoption, believe that it is very important to give birth mothers choices and to give them the chance to know where their child is going. That is the least any of us can do for the courageous, selfless, act of love of placing a child.
I am sure that you did not consider the other side when you wrote your comments, but maybe this will give you some insight to how much the other side endures. Not that one side is better than the other. All sides in adoption hurt in some way.
2.) It is true that my staff will not work for free. Just like you work and expect to be paid, my staff does as well. I am called to this field; believe me, I know I am because it is not easy to have to deal with things like this but I also have a right to make a living for my family as well. So no, we cannot provide a service to birth mothers and adoptive families and then not get paid when the adoption does not work out the way we all wanted it to. What we can do, is stay committed to our families until a child is placed in their home and that is what we are doing. It is no different than a heart surgeon requiring payment for doing a heart transplant. If the heart doesn't work, the family is still expected to pay. Again, we are very proud of the fact that we continue to work for as long as it takes, as hard as we can until a child is placed.
3.) As far as privacy goes: I did not reveal anything more than Amy revealed in her posting to begin with. Her confidentiality was not broken in any way because she first revealed who she was and what her story was. I just commented on it.
4.) It is true that just licensing does not make you a wonderful agency. However, we have to endure a lot of scrutiny when we are licensed. It is so much more than just going out and getting a business license. So you do have to be very ethical to be able to pass a license review. However I might add that I have over 350 very happy families. That should speak for something.
And lastly, I don't like having to spend my time on the internet defending myself either, but it seems as though I am going to be reduced to that because this is not going to stop. The comments that families have made about us are not helping anyone, including themselves.
Again, I invite anyone to call my agency or write us if you would like for us to clarify an issue that you have with us.
Amy did not reveal that their case was gender specific..you did.
Kaite did not reveal her name nor any details of her case..you did.
That is called breaking confidentiality..trust me..I deal with this in my line of work constantly.
IN regard to your other comments about my post..I do understand both sides of adoption and did consider them both..my point is just that there needs to be a better way..there has to be some middle ground..both extremes are unhealthy for all involved. I am biased because of my friend's situation, I realize, but I'm simply suggessting that just because "that's adoption" doesn't mean that is the best way to go about it. What happens if an adoptive family does not want to get overly involved with a birth mother, than are they not as likely to have a successful placement? what about their privacy too? A birth mother can get to know the family through their portfolio without getting them so involved.
This is a site for people to express their anger and frustration and get support. I doubt anyone wanted to start a debate with you.I can't speak for the people on this site, but I'm not sure you posting here is helpful to them..let them have their greif and anger, you are making it worse!
"what are you? 12?
time to grow up, get over it & move on. youre one of those people that uses your past to defend your actions-sickening. you are very immature & childish. your mothers must be so proud of you".
YOU are the reason God made hell and I can't wait till He throws you in it. YOU are also proof agency's will let any child abusing, people abusing peice of no class loser crap adopt. Boy are "your" kids going to hate your guts-and you deserve it.
Please let me know if I have broken the rules in any way. I did not intend to. It is a privilege to get to post comments in response to something that someone has said about us; a privilege that I do not want to lose. I went to create a "free user account" as it seems I was instructed to do and could not. Please help on this issue.
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I have sat back and watched adoptive parents slander our agency's name for some time now. It is really sad because I need to be working on finding a match and making adoptions happen for these people, but now I am reduced to spending a good portion of my day surfing the internet to defend myself.
Many of the statements that have been made about us by prior clients are listed as anonymous so I can't answer to every statement but some of the statments I can answer to because I know who you are.
Thank you, Amy, for being brave enough for at least listing your name. I will start with you first. It is true that you have had to wait a long time for a baby and have had three failed matches as you listed in your story. We are always very upfront with clients when they sign up with us and explain that birth mothers do have a right to change their mind about an adoption. Everyone on our staff works very hard to make these placments go through, but sometimes there is just nothing we can do. Any adoption professional will agree. Your last failed placement was particularly heart breaking because you did travel for so long, but that is adoption. You got to talk to this birthmother before she delivered and you felt good about her placing as well-or at least that is what you told our caseworker. The caseworker in this case put in countless hours with this birth mother and even went to her house (in a terribly dangerous part of TN) at night and banged on her door trying to get the birth mother to face her. She also left countless messages on her phone attempting to counsel with her. Molly is one of our finest caseworkers and I feel she did everything possible to make this placement work for you.
I am totally fine with clients who want to tell their story about Adoption Advantage, but please remember to include all details such as the fact that you are gender specific. We always tell clients that when they are gender specific that the adoption process will take much longer. You are very close to being matched because you are the only couple on our list for what you want. So please hang in there, you will get a child. As far as not calling you after it happened: We have had clients in your situation who get mad at us for calling and clients who get mad at us for not calling. It seems that no matter what I have my staff do, someone is always mad. My approach is to give you a while to work through some of your grief and then to call and check on you. However, you know that anyone in our staff is available for you and you are welcome to pick up the phone and call us for support if you want it.
Katie-I believe you are listed as anonymous, but I know it is you because you are the only client I have threatened to sue. However you left out part of your story as well. I do not have a problem with you telling truthful things about our agency, but you have contacted several clients and have told them, or written false information about us. If you continue to do that I have no other choice but to bring legal action against you. Please tell your story-but tell the truth. The fact is you signed up with our agency and got a baby very fast, I believe it was less than 3 months. It took a bit longer than normal to finalize your adoption because of some legal issues regarding your case that the agency had no control over. However your adoption was finalized. The other statements that you have made regarding the birth mother of your child and other statements are false. Those are the things that I asked you to discontinue saying; not truthful things that happened in your case.
Looking for Hope-I am sorry I do not know who you are. I am sorry that you have had to wait so long. However, I can tell you that we show all of our families many times a month and your turn will come and hopefully soon. It is true that we do not require the funds up front. Families can pay the funds up front and if they do then they recieve a 10% waiver of fees. So it is the client's option. I do find it hard to believe that you have not talked to a caseworker or me in a year and a half. We do keep notes on every client and I do not have a client who has not talked to us in a year and a half. Again, you are always welcome to pick up the phone and ask for me or our director, Ed. We will be more than happy to talk to you. I urge you to call us so we can discuss why it has been so long and you have not been offered a match. For instance I wonder if the criteria that you set is making it difficult to find a match for you? Please remember that we first have to meet your criteria and then find a birth mother who is willing to match with you. Perhaps some updating on your portfolio would help? So, again I urge you to call and talk to us. Posting on this site is not going to help you and is only contributing to the fears that all adoptive parents have and I cannot help you unless you talk to me.
David-I do know who you are and I welcome anyone to call licensing as well. You can call Shirley Preston in the Little Rock office and Debbie Childress in the Tennessee office. I will be happy to provide those numbers for you. These ladies have been working with us since we have been licensed and know our history so please make sure you talk to someone in DHS who has the correct information. As far as calling other adoption agencies and attorneys in the state: Adoption is a highly competitive field. While we are not in the habit of saying bad things about other agencies there are many who will. Adoption Advantage has been very successful in placing children in the state of Arkansas and many small agencies have stopped their domestic program because they cannot recruit the number of birth mothers that we do. We spend a lot of advertising dollars to recruit these birthmothers that other agencies and attorneys are not willing to spend. We also work 24/7 to take care of them and many agencies and attorneys are not willing to do that either. Of course those same agencies would love to have your business so be careful who you get information from or it could cause you to lose out on a very good situation.
I appreciate all of the potential clients checking in to us. It is always my desire to give you factual, up to date information. However please be aware that usually people who post on the internet are usually people who are angry and hurt. Much of the time, in adoption, when a birth mother changes her mind a client becomes very angry. Since they cannot get to the birth mother, then the target is us. It is very unfortunate because I have a wonderful staff and we all work very hard to make adoptions happen.
We are not a "scam". We have been practising for 16 years and have placed close to 400 children. We are licensed in two states and if there was so much bad against us, that was true, then why would we keep getting our license renewed?
And finally, thank you to the few people who took enough time out of their day to take up for us. I welcome and encourage anyone to email or call me if they would like for me to answer any questions. My number is 501-376-7778.
Sincerely,
Donna Gail Webb
.......I have sat back and
.......I have sat back and watched adoptive parents slander our agency's name for some time now. It is really sad because I need to be working on finding a match and making adoptions happen for these people, but now I am reduced to spending a good portion of my day surfing the internet to defend myself.
Really, Isn’t the owner a lawyer? Can he not stop it? How good of a lawyer is he?
If you are doing nothing wrong, why are so many people slandering you?
Your reputation should be your defense, if you are reduced to surfing the net there might be a problem.
nobody
NOBODY
yup- youre a NOBODY, alright!
personal attack
To resort to personal attacks is the sign of a weak person, and proves I am right, because you attacked the messenger not the message.
nobody
This proves how unethical you are....
This post just proves to everyone how unethical you are. Way to go - giving yourself 5 stars!!!!!
Give me a break
I am responding to this as an outsider in the adoption "game" as it seems to be described here, but as a friend who has watched someone I love go through an entire year of heartache that is partially the responsibility of Adoption advantage. Come on people..read between the lines! 'first of all, if the director of this agency is spending much of her time online defending herself, isn't that a potential red flag? Also, let's remember that by the time most couples come to the decision of pursuing adoption they have already had their hearts broekn by infertility and are making much of their decisions driven by emotion. You dont' think that adoption agencies aren't aware of that? Of course people will put money into something like this when their hearts are aching so deeply. What about taking some responsibility for the way this process is done. Why is it necessary to get a couple so emotionally involved prior to any kind of paperwork being signed and months before a baby is even born. Of course a birth Mom has the right to change her mind, I do not think anyone here argues with that..that is precisely why it is cruel and unethical, in my opinion, to "hook" these couples months prior to birth and require birth mother expenses be paid prior to the adoption being finalized. What happened to the old fashioned way of adoption where a couple is not matched until after the birth and the mother has already left the scenario? I have had several family members who were adopted as infants and there wasn't this "matching" process prior to birth. They were called by the agency after a baby was born and told that there was a baby if they wanted to adopt it. The emotional scars this leaves on people when they are invested for several months and then it falls through are unforgiveable and unnecessary and you bet they are hurt and angry. I think any normal person would be and ot just say "that's adoption", that is unacceptable to me. My guess is that your agency would not be able to survive financially if it wasn't done this way because of the money you spend on "recruitment" and "advertising". What is really going on here.
Donna, just because you have gotten your license renewed does not mean you operate a good business. There are plenty of licensed physicians, daycares, and therapists out there I would not recommend to anyone either. By the waydid you check with your attorney regarding privacy laws prior to getting online and posting confidential information about your client's cases? You might want to rethink that one.
To potential adoptive families, as anyone would say, do your research and think long and hard about this pre-matching idea and think about it from all potential angles. I wish you all luck in your journey.
Matching prior to birth
For those who think that pre matching is a bad idea, you obviously don't realize that any woman has a hard time working in her last trimester. The majority of the birth mother calls that come in to adoption agencies are women in their last trimester and they cannot financially or emotionally support themselves, never the less, support a child. Agencies act as a mediator between the two parties. They provide adoptive parents with children and they assure that they can financially and emotionally support a child when the biological parents cannot. They male sure that the birth mothers are cared for and provide them with social and/or professional counseling. There are matches that happen after birth, and as a caseworker for an agency, I can tell you that these situations are welcomed by both my agency and our clients. Although these calls are few and far between...they do happen. If we only advertised to women who have already had the baby and are looking to place the child, there would not be as many placements and the birth parents would resort to other agencies or worse. Do you think that agencies should not reach out to these ladies who are pregnant and needing help? Also, potential clients are informed of the matching process before they sign or pay anything. So, maybe you are the one who needs to do your homework. Why should age, education or your origin have anything to do with ones humility or humanity? If someone wants to find a child who has already been born and needs a family...check with your local department of human services/ division of child and family services. You will find that there are thousands of children, already born, who need loving families. Do you think that if someone reached out to the parents of these children before they were born...that maybe...just maybe...they wouldn't be sitting in foster care for months to years with no sense of stability. Ummm....I wonder? Oh, and just so no red flags go up, I am taking personal time out of my lunch break to respond to this nonsense. God bless you all and I will pray for you!
Adoption Advantage
You are a good friend for caring so much. I understand that adoption is probably not familiar to you so I would like to respond to a couple of your points. 1.) Why do couples have to be "matched" with a birth mother-why can't parents just be called and told there was a baby to adopt if they wanted it".
I am adopted and so is my sister who is eleven years older than I am. She was adopted as an infant and I was not adopted until I was an older child. As a child, I grew up knowing that I had family "out there" but could not connect with them until I was an adult. That was very painful for both myself and my birth mother. She did not get to choose the family I went to. I have to live with that, but mother's and children, in this day do not. Thankfully because our social system has evloved so that birth mothers are given the chance to get to know the family that will be caring for her child and children have a way to re-connect with birth families later in their life when they are mature enough to handle it. While this may make it harder on parents who have to endure disruptions (which I am so heartbroken for those who do) it allows birth mothers to make a good decision for their child and to actually feel good about it. To not go away thinking that a cold, unfeeling adoption agency or attorney "snatched their child away and gave it to someone they did not know". That is an actual comment from a birth mother who went through an "Old Fashioned" adoption. Even though most children who are adopted are raised by wonderful parents, there is always a wound present in knowing that you could not be raised by your biological family to some degree. It helps to know that your parents met your birth mother and heard from your birth mother that she loved you and made the best decision for you on what she had at the moment. It helps to know that your birth mother chose the perfect family, in her opinion for you to grow up in. It is very difficult to place a child for adoption. I have never met a birth mother who "wanted" to place her child. They always feel that they are doing the best they can for their child. Our agency, and most professionals in adoption, believe that it is very important to give birth mothers choices and to give them the chance to know where their child is going. That is the least any of us can do for the courageous, selfless, act of love of placing a child.
I am sure that you did not consider the other side when you wrote your comments, but maybe this will give you some insight to how much the other side endures. Not that one side is better than the other. All sides in adoption hurt in some way.
2.) It is true that my staff will not work for free. Just like you work and expect to be paid, my staff does as well. I am called to this field; believe me, I know I am because it is not easy to have to deal with things like this but I also have a right to make a living for my family as well. So no, we cannot provide a service to birth mothers and adoptive families and then not get paid when the adoption does not work out the way we all wanted it to. What we can do, is stay committed to our families until a child is placed in their home and that is what we are doing. It is no different than a heart surgeon requiring payment for doing a heart transplant. If the heart doesn't work, the family is still expected to pay. Again, we are very proud of the fact that we continue to work for as long as it takes, as hard as we can until a child is placed.
3.) As far as privacy goes: I did not reveal anything more than Amy revealed in her posting to begin with. Her confidentiality was not broken in any way because she first revealed who she was and what her story was. I just commented on it.
4.) It is true that just licensing does not make you a wonderful agency. However, we have to endure a lot of scrutiny when we are licensed. It is so much more than just going out and getting a business license. So you do have to be very ethical to be able to pass a license review. However I might add that I have over 350 very happy families. That should speak for something.
And lastly, I don't like having to spend my time on the internet defending myself either, but it seems as though I am going to be reduced to that because this is not going to stop. The comments that families have made about us are not helping anyone, including themselves.
Again, I invite anyone to call my agency or write us if you would like for us to clarify an issue that you have with us.
Donna Gail Webb
Adoption Advantage
501-376-7778
confidentiality?
Amy did not reveal that their case was gender specific..you did.
Kaite did not reveal her name nor any details of her case..you did.
That is called breaking confidentiality..trust me..I deal with this in my line of work constantly.
IN regard to your other comments about my post..I do understand both sides of adoption and did consider them both..my point is just that there needs to be a better way..there has to be some middle ground..both extremes are unhealthy for all involved. I am biased because of my friend's situation, I realize, but I'm simply suggessting that just because "that's adoption" doesn't mean that is the best way to go about it. What happens if an adoptive family does not want to get overly involved with a birth mother, than are they not as likely to have a successful placement? what about their privacy too? A birth mother can get to know the family through their portfolio without getting them so involved.
This is a site for people to express their anger and frustration and get support. I doubt anyone wanted to start a debate with you.I can't speak for the people on this site, but I'm not sure you posting here is helpful to them..let them have their greif and anger, you are making it worse!
Please read the rules before
Please read the rules before posting. http://www.adoptionagencyratings.com/rules-using-adoption-agency-ratings...
1. If you are a agency, DO NOT WRITE A REVIEW. You can reply to reviews about your agency but please identify yourself as a agency representative.
ADOPTION ISN'T CHRISTIAN
"what are you? 12?
time to grow up, get over it & move on. youre one of those people that uses your past to defend your actions-sickening. you are very immature & childish. your mothers must be so proud of you".
YOU are the reason God made hell and I can't wait till He throws you in it. YOU are also proof agency's will let any child abusing, people abusing peice of no class loser crap adopt. Boy are "your" kids going to hate your guts-and you deserve it.
still 12?
lol you are so funny
Please let me know if I have
Please let me know if I have broken the rules in any way. I did not intend to. It is a privilege to get to post comments in response to something that someone has said about us; a privilege that I do not want to lose. I went to create a "free user account" as it seems I was instructed to do and could not. Please help on this issue.
Thanks so much,
Donna Gail Webb
Adoption Advantage