Primetime Adoption Special
July 25, 2007What a load of crap!
Gladney should be put out of business.
Right away, I was muttering about how the narrator/interviewer Cynthia McFadden and the “counselor” Paula St. John were calling the girls birthmoms prior to them having signed off on their rights. They are mothers, plain and simple. No prefixes, no qualifiers, NADA.
Plus what they called open adoption is no where near what I call open adoption.
I can’t even explain how horrified I was by their process, how coercive it seemed, how heartbreaking. What makes it worse is knowing that Gladney probably put their “best foot forward” for this show. My God, what it must truly be like.
I hate Gladney. Hate them.
Thought I would let you know that I have had you linked for a while now. Agree on Gladney. I live in Texas but I am planning on getting my own crew of leggies together and changing adoptee access. In that time frame, I am going to figure out how to put them back in perspective so that they don’t control adoptee access laws as well as other adoption statutes.
I have heard (not had it confirmed) that Gladney’s social workers are paid more if a child is placed, which way ups their motivation to separate babies from mamas.