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Well, folks – I have a confession to make!
I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to write about.
I need ideas, and I need a lot of them!
I’m responsible for writing two blogs (yup, count ‘em, two) here at adoptionblogs and some days I am feeling rather lost. What should I say? What do people want me to say? Should I cover certain topics? What do you want to know?
This is the Hoping to Adopt blog…and while I’m hoping to adopt I am not in the process, or even close to the process. I have a reluctant spouse and a little boy who needs a few more years of close attention and so it’s not going to happen any time soon for me…but still, there seems to be plenty I could talk about. Since I’m supposed to be writing from the perspective of someone who’s thinking about adopting the possibilities are pretty open-ended…
And I know I have some readers. Who are you? What do you want me to say?
I’ll have to think on this and let you know what we want to know.
Thanks for thinking…
I am not adopted nor am I looking for anyone for myself, but I have some information that someone else may be looking for. I don’t know what to do with this info. Could you please help? About 4 or 5 years ago, I was visiting the National Zoo in DC with my mixed grandson. A very nice worker there started talking to me about his daughter that he was looking for. His name was Zay Carter – a black man now about 59 or 60 yrs. old. He said that he wished his girlfriends mom had been like me and loved the mixed child that he had with someone whose last name was “Clome”. She was of italian, irish descent and her mom made her give up their baby for adoption. The girl’s name at birth was Diane, I think. Anyway, he said that he knew his daughter was looking for him because a friend of his that owns Carter’s Barber shop somewhere in New York City said the girl (woman) came in there asking about Zay. The friend took the girls name and address (somewhere in Conn.) and was going to pass it on to Zay. As luck would have it, the cleaning crew threw out the paper with the address on it that night. All the friend could remember was that she lived in Conn. I don’t know much about the internet, but thought maybe you could tell me where I could post this info just in case they are still looking for each other. I moved away from DC 3 yrs ago, but would like to pass on to the woman that Zay Carter was at that time, working at the National Zoo so maybe she could find him there. Thank you for any help you can give.
Hi Mary – I’m certainly no expert in the searching department but luckily, we have two experts on this site – please go to http://birthfamily-search.adoptionblogs.com/ and read what Karen and Jan have to say. You can also e-mail them at
adoptionsearchblog2@adoptionmail.com
and
adoptionsearchblog@adoptionmail.com
Good luck to you and your friend!
Adrienne
Here are some things my husband and I have been talking about that we would always welcome other opinions on…
~Transracial adoption…how do you know you can handle it?
~How to find the avenue for adoption that is right for you (international, domestic, agency, facilitator, etc). Whose opinion do you trust?
~Financial options for funding adoption…how much is too much debt?
~Open adoptions and the impact on the family (stress, fear, etc).
~How to talk to bio children about possibly adding to your family through adoption.
I’m sure there are more. I’ll send them to you as soon as I think of them.
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Oooooohhhh…those are good topics.
I am *so* not the expert on them! But I guess I’m not the expert on any of this…so what the heck! I’ll go for it.
We do have awesome bloggers here at adoptionblogs who talk about transracial adoption, for example, and I know some of those topics have been done in other places but I guess *I* haven’t done them…so why not?
Thanks so much for the input!
Adrienne
WOW!!! OMG!!! That’s my grandfather. My mother was actually a foster child named Theresa Colomb, her mother’s name is Diana Colomb, now DeSantis. My mother and her foster father did go to a Carter’s Barber Shop in Connecticut looking for her biological father. And her foster records list her father, Zay Carter, as a black man born in 1947, which would make him about 60 now. We knew he lived in Washington DC or Maryland but could not find where he lived. My mom’s foster sister who lived in the state actually drove me about 1 hour to find old addresses he lived at. Could anyone help me with more info or how to get in contact with the person who started the blog?
Hi I’m Actually Theresa M. Colomb the child that was put up for adoption 42 yrs ago I have been looking for my father and mother and any family that might be out there I tried to have my records released to me but they were lost all my records I have no info on me from day one so I would despeately want to meet all my family that is out there so u can reach me back threw dc which is my oldest son of 3