First moms - how do you rate your social worker/adoption agency?
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First moms - how do you rate your social worker/adoption agency?
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On a scale of 1 to 10:
1 = extremely poor / useless
10 = OMG, love my agency, love being a b-mom!
Who did the agency serve - you or the PAPs?
What kinds of services did you receive?
Do you receive any on-going support services from the agency?
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MamaKate
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Knowing what I know now:
Rating : There isn't a scale that goes low enough.
Who did they serve : Why the PAPs, of course!
Services: I didn't receive ANY services from the agency.
On-going support : *snort* There was no support to begin with.
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magic pointe shoes
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Geeze, this is tough to answer. At the time I thought that the lawyer was a 10. She seemed on the top of knowledge of how adoption should be with regards to openness, counseling, etc... but it turns out that the procedures she used weren't very ethical or moral with regards to what I went through. I can't honestly rate her because while parts of her business were top notch other parts are inexcusable.
She spoke a great deal about proper counseling for birthparents both before hand and after. But because I was so firm with relinquishing, I only had that 30 minute counseling session prior to matching with the one prospective adoptive couple I met. She was absolutely firm about how the hospital experience would be a positive with me calling the shots, and then I only ended up getting to see my son for 45 seconds on my belly despite begging to see him again. The next morning they released me early from the hospital so that I could legally sign the relinquishment papers. Signed based on 45 seconds of seeing my son. How is that okay? How could they think not to ask? Postpartum counseling was one session and also a joke. |
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Mary G
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-10000.. or less than useless.. Seymour Kurtz and Easter House are a stain on Illinois. Baby Broker Extraordinaire, is how I would categorize them.
I got nothing before or after, except a lot of grief, pain and loss.
ETA: Oh my, thumbs down for a personal experience! How deliciously funny!
Seymour Kurtz and his agencies are nothing but baby brokers, who use the most coercive tactics you can imagine. Proven fact.. see babybrokers.com |
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Penny A (Vanessa)
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I did not deal with an agency, adoptions are controlled by the government here. I dealt with the hospital social worker who was neutral. She was nice, I'll give her a 7. |
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