They took her home that day. That baby girl became my mother. In the year 2000, I went to a bank with my son Bud to get a cashier's check in the high four figures. We're going to get him this weekend, after more than a year of paying various government and government-chartered private agencies, lawyers, notaries, and officials, and of having those agencies pry into our lives. Explaining what happens in adoption today isn't easy.
Procedures vary from state to state.
These groups are typically liberal, statist, meddlesome, interventionist, and self-righteous. You only find out what they've been up to when you try to adopt for yourself. When I first started to look into adoption, I called a home for unwed mothers. This home advertised on Christian radio stations, urging women not to have abortions, but to carry their babies to term and give them up for adoption. I got right through to one of the home's managers.