adoption

• Crisis Pregnancy Blogger Needed-

  AdoptionBlogs.com is looking for a great blogger, preferably one with experience, to take over the Crisis Pregnancy blog. We are seeking someone who can commit to the position who has been through an unplanned pregnancy of their own. Blogs should be written from an unbiased point of view but simultaneously one of experience, offering advice without judgment or agenda. Both adoption and parenting should be discussed with an emphasis on the realities of adoption, resources for mothers and emotional support for the difficult time. It would help you to go ahead and read what our previous blogger has written over the past two years to get a feel for what we're looking for at this time!

  Please e-mail me at mrsjennahatfield at gmail dot com with interest as soon as possible (preferably today!) so I can tell you the requirements for applying.

  This position needs filled immediately. Feel free to pass the information on!

• An unspeakable tragedy-

  In Texas last week, the media carried far and wide the kind of story that makes all of us in the adoption community shudder and cringe.

  A licensed vocational nurse with five biological kids was convicted in Corpus Christi, for murdering a four-year-old child she and her husband were preparing to adopt through CPS (by way of Spaulding).

• Girls in Trouble-

  Having just finished the book for the second time, I'm more aware of both the good points and bad points presented in fictional format.

• The Girls Who Went Away-

  The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler. In short, this is the best non-fiction book I have read in a long, long time. And I’m that nerd that loves non-fiction: memoirs, histories, biographies and tell-alls. I love them all!