Holidays

During the holiday season, particularly Thanksgiving and Christmas, and knowing that it is coming to the end of another year. We need to take some time and look back to see what we have accomplished as a family. We have a special needs child in a special program for the child. We have other children plugging along with their school requirements. We need to slow down and make this holiday season, one that can be remembered for the rest of our lives and our children need to have these memories to pass on to their children. Let's all remember that we are here because of God's sovereign will and plan. God Bless

Ours and Others

Over the past several weeks there has been quite the stir in our home. The holidays are upon us and we have increased "busy-ness". This "busy-ness" has always added to the stress of the home, it requires more attention to be given to planning for festivities and to provide protection for those that are around our special children. We will be doing many things that will encourage change a venue for those in our home who do not cope well.

New Project

Over the last several weeks I have been working diligently to create a social network for Christians. My children are getting older and with the influence of social networks in our society today, I decided to start one with the next generation in mind. As it comes closer to the day that this site will be launched, I will begin to place several postings here to make an announcement to the WWW.

Taking a Break!

Over the last several weeks I have been spending a great deal of time working on a project that I hope will be both beneficial and eventually profitable. I will leave the details on the project at a later date.

Hope for Struggling Parents

In my next segment on adoption. I will discuss the possible solutions to adoptive parents who have adopted children with real problems.

Adoption

Adoption is, in my opinion, a potential for great joy. It opens the possibility for people to be open to loving someone who is not directly linked to them by DNA. However, on the other end of this option is the possibility that the child you hope to adopt is indeed mentally and emotionally challenged. If you have adopted a child from the state in which you live, I would recommend that you have the child tested at a very early age to ascertain if there is indeed the possibility of problems for the child's development and your families dynamic.

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The emergency placement gave us the option to be more selective in having children in our home. We also did not jump at the chance at having a particular child in our home, even though we would love to have them all. We also communicated with the county and set up a stringent criteria for what we were looking for. This gave us more time to think about which child we would like in our home.

Adoption

Adoption of children from the state or county should be approached with great care, especially if you have children of your own. If I knew then what I know today, we probably would not have adopted the children in our home. The issues of their lives are affecting everyone who is in contact with them everyday.

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It is unfortunate that in these cases where the parents are drug users and they produce children. That they are not subject to more requirements for their children’s care. As I understand this particular mother has had 4 children in the foster care system, all are adopted, all have similar problems. It is unfortunate for the children, parents can cope-children can not.

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The child we adopted from the county who’s mother/father were drug users. The child has been tested and it is found to be barely above the IQ of 70. 70 is the threshold of determining mental retardation. However, with the child being above the threshold, the child can not receive certain services from organizations to help those who are lower functioning.

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One of the children we adopted was removed for neglect. During the course of the county’s offering services to the parents for reunification. It was determined that the parents were methamphetamine users. The mother told the social worker that she used the drug during her pregnancy.

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The children in the foster care system have been removed for particular reasons. The parents or care givers have been neglectful or the child was removed because the parents are drug users and have tested positive for the presence of drug of choice.

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State and county officials are not completely honest with most foster parents who are interested in adoption. They know about the problems that prospective adoptive parents will encounter in the life of the children in the foster care system.

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Adopting a child or children from the foster care system can be very arduous. You are under constant scrutiny and your home environment must be modified to meet the state/county standards

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It took our family a little while to get use to having a baby in the house. We learned in a short time that the little one we just welcomed into the family could not process formula. The pediatrician suggested a formula that was a little different than what we were accustomed to giving. It was based on soy not cows milk.

Poem

Adoption Creed

Not flesh of my flesh
nor bone of my bone
but still miraculously
my own.
Never forget
For a single minute
you didn't grow under
my heart, but in it.
Author Unknown

Focus on the Family-Adoption Coference

Greetings from Focus on the Family?!

President and CEO, James D. DalyIt's my privilege to extend an invitation for you to join us for the Wait No More: Finding Families for California's Waiting Kids conference presented in conjunction with California social services and adoption leaders on Saturday, September 19th.

As you may know, we recently launched our Adoption & Orphan Care Initiative? in an effort to raise awareness throughout the Church regarding the plight of orphans, with particular emphasis on legal orphans right here in the U.S. foster care system.

In California alone, thousands of children and youth are waiting in the foster care system for adoptive families. Thankfully, with over 10,000 churches in California, there is every reason to hope that we can make a difference in the lives of these lonely children. Consider the impact if families throughout the state's congregations welcomed these waiting children in foster care into their hearts and homes: We could see no children in foster care awaiting adoption! Such a goal is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility, and we are committed to doing everything possible to help bring it to fruition.

This gathering will provide detailed information regarding the adoption process via the foster care system. Additionally, those present will be given an opportunity to ask questions and to become acquainted with the faces and stories of some of the children waiting in California's foster care system who long for a family to call their own.

This is a free event, but we do ask that you take a few minutes to register. All participants who register in advance will be provided with a selection of complimentary resources. For additional specifics about Wait No More, visit iCareAboutOrphans.org.

In James 1:27 we're told, "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans ... "in their distress ..." With that exhortation in mind, we urge you to join this informative and ground-breaking conference.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, September 19th. Again, please take a moment to register. Meanwhile, we would covet your prayers for this vital undertaking on behalf of California's waiting kids. May God's blessings remain upon you and your loved ones in the days ahead.

Sincerely,
Jim Daly's signature
James D. Daly

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By making the previous mentioned changes to our file with the county, we didn?t get a telephone call nearly everyday for a new placement in our home. We did feel fortunate when we got the child that would be our first adopted child. The child had some features that would make it look like it belonged in our family. We got this child when it was 5 months old. The initial reason for removing the child was neglect.

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The emergency placement gave us the option to be more selective in having children in our home. We also did not jump at the chance at having a particular child in our home, even though we would love to have them all. We also communicated with the county and set up a stringent criteria for what we were looking for. This gave us more time to think about which child we would like in our home.


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Adoption-101

Although we lived with the heartache of the children we had in our home returned to their respective parents, we continued to be foster parents. We did learn through the process to change our attitude with regard to what we really wanted. With that in mind we changed the wide range of placement to emergency placement.

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When we first signed up to be foster parents we were told that 75% of the children entering the foster system did not go home. We hoped in the beginning that we would be attached to the children and they would be adopted by us. We had 4 children in our home in the first 8-10years we were foster parents, and all of them were reunified with their parents. We thought with the statistics we were given that we would have been adopting at least one of the kids we had in our home. I am not disappointed that the parents of the children complied with the States requirements and the children were returned, we had just hoped that we would be adoptive parents.

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Both children we have adopted have special needs issues. They have both been tested and it has been determined that they are both lower functioning individuals. The bottom line is that they are above the threshold of intelligence to live a somewhat productive life. But not low enough to receive special services that would really help them. As a Christian I believe that God has placed them in my home so that we may minister to them and at the same time, we may be equipped to teach others that we come in contact with who have adopted children and are in the same boat.

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One of the things I have learned over the years is that adopting a child
from the local foster system is a crap shoot. I love the children we
have adopted, however, the local foster system does not really share
with you up front all the issues relating to the prospective child you
have in your home. Either they do not know what issue the child has or
may have because they are uneducated or they are doing their best to not
transmit that information to the prospective adoptive parents.

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I am very thankful that God has helped me to find Truehope. Most people
who know our family are watching what will happen with our child. We
remain hopeful, so if you would like to communicate with someone who has
experience with this supplement, please contact me.

HHO&O

Today was a decent day, there was only one flair up and the child was calmed down successfully in a matter of minutes

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When you call Truehope and set up your account, you are given a contact person that you most likely will speak with everyday of the week. You will go through a check list of behaviors to assess what your child needs. Not to state that this supplement is limited to children, it is not. It is for everyone that needs it.

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The company that we purchase the supplement from also has people that you can talk to about the supplement and discern whether or not it would be of a value for you. I have found them to be honest people and they really are in the business of helping you not just pushing something on you that really has no value to the situation at hand.