By entering you agree not to hold us liable for the contents of our creation. We're not trying to get rid of adoption agencies. Frankly, I'd rather have adoption agencies than lawyers because it's easier to police them. The 43 private agencies operations in Colorado already are licensed, but they fact stiffer requirements for credentials, qualifications, training and educating their staffs, maintaining records and standards for how they run their operations. Some 2,000 children were adopted in Colorado in 1995.
Dishonest counseling is worse than no counseling at all.
Kottmeier, Colorado's state representative for the American Adoption Congress, was an unmarried college student with no money and no home of her own when she gave up her son 28 years ago. She was pressured by her parents and others who convinced her she couldn't raise him alone. She wants to make sure counselors are totally honest with the birth parents. I tell them about the grief. It's not always wonderful.