Jewels

Is anybody else running into the agencies, facillitators, & adoption web businesses kind of controlling most of the adoption groups & message boards? Except for this one of course! LOL I was on the adoption.com board and got my post removed for mentioning another site that lists dear birthmother letters and their parentprofile website that's actually owned by adoption.com. So confusing. How do you know who's who & with what agency or company when they have multiple domain names?

The more I look at stuff on the web about adoption the more glaringly evident how much of a "business" this has become. While I do think we need regulation & laws & professionals to protect everybody involved the marketing stuff is kind of hard for me to swallow. But having said that I guess there needs to be some marketing of sorts to find agencies and information. I don't know if there's an easy answer to this.

So after thinking about all this I asked my husband to put together a message board for us at www.adoptionboard.org It's a place to talk about adoption and is not affiliated with ANY one agency or website. You can post about any agency you want!

Now I just need my cysters to pass the word along so we can get posting! If things get busy we may need help with moderating too. Anybody interested?

Ciao Bellas
Julia
www.definitely.com

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Jewels

Just a thank you for the support of my cysters!
Julia
www.adoptionboard.org
www.definitely.com

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skiboo

I have a large circle of adoption friends. We all adopted from Russia together... I will spread the word around! I will join tomorrow... Thanks for doing this.

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Jewels

Thank you skiboo! It will be so fun to have a bunch of people with experience! Before we decided upon domestic adoption we had talked with a friend of a friend who was a judge in Romania & Moldova but also practices law in Russia about adopting from there. He actually has a friend in Moldova that runs an orphanage there still. Things were sketchy at that time in Moldova and I really wanted to work with an established agency so we kind of passed on him but everytime I look at the kids from there and the big bows it's just too cute. But then I look at the babies from China and Guatemala and India and Africa and think the same thing. LOL

Julia
www.adoptionboard.org
www.definitely.com

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NASCAR CYSTER

Julia,

I think this is a great idea! I can't wait to talk with ladies on your site.

Adrienne

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mia_2005

YEAH!!!! I am SOOOOO excited about this! Count me in!

Jewels

Oh how fun!!! See you there... and here of course. LOL
Julia
www.adoptionboard.org
www.definitely.com

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