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A Happy Ending
Our Adoption Experience
By Mike Donoghue
We went to adoption seminars. Some were thinly-veiled marketing attempts to get prospective customers, but others allowed for free discussion of issues and gave us the opportunity to meet those who had already been through the process. Most people were very helpful and sympathetic and were full of information and advice. Aside from giving us a list of contacts, it also gave us insight into which kinds of agencies or services we needed to avoid.
Without naming names, I will say that the agency let us and other adopting parents down by imposing new restrictions and drawing out the process. We watched as couples just coming into the program were chosen over us and the others who had already been waiting – some more than a year – and confronted the agency on the propriety of their actions. Our questions were shrugged off, and we were left thinking that we might never adopt since we could not afford to go anywhere else.