Tag: adopting a child with disabilities
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Adoption Story (pt. 9)
A bit about the “team” at this point. This point being the first few months with M being back in our home. M’s social worker from the foster care agency had moved on to another job by the time M came home. We met with the new worker who M knew in passing from…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 8)
“Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow” Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy The lead social worker on her case at Saint —— facility mentioned that while reading M’s extensive medical records she had to pause often. The trauma described seemed too insurmountable. She was in awe…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt.7)
“I may be a lost cause, but I thought if you loved me, it needn’t matter.” John Osborne M didn’t make contact with us for the next two weeks. By now M’s sisters were on the fast track to adoption. We could have jumped ship at this point. Her worker told us that she had…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 5)
Technically we were off the hook. The doctor at the small general hospital immediately understood that M was overmedicated and agreed that the best thing to do was to send her back to the mental health facility around thirty minutes from our house to have her medications reevaluated. Yet … we knew what M didn’t…
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Family Histories: Family Traits Good and Bad
“They said in the D.A.R.E. class that since my real mother did drugs Then I probably would too.” (D.A.R.E. is the anti-drug class taught in many public schools in the U.S.) This is why too much information given to children may sometimes be a bad thing. Our newly adopted daughter is only mildly intellectually disabled…
Author Adrienne Morris 