Photo Announcements
After having a baby, you have to face another big challenge: sending out your baby Birth Announcements. While you’ll probably enjoy sending out Photo Birth Announcements to let the world know about your new addition, you may not enjoy having to deal with the proper etiquette issues involved in sending out such cards. If you’re not familiar with some of those rules, now is a good time for a refresher course.
Proper Wording for Couples
If you’re a couple who are jointly going to be sending out the announcements, you’ll want to include both of your names. For example, you might write “Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Smith” or “Andrew and Anna Smith.” The choice is yours. In addition to your names, you’ll also have to include all of the information about the baby, such as his or her name, gender, weight, length and more. Of course, this is the easiest situation for the Birth Announcements and not everyone’s situation is so easy.
For example, if the parents have different last names, this can cause some confusion about the proper way to add their names to the announcement. Generally, the best choice is to write both names separately: John Doe and Jane Smith. The baby’s full name should also be included so recipients will not be confused as to whose last name was given to the child. This same rule applies to married couples who have different surnames, couples who aren’t married, and alternative lifestyle couples.
Baby Announcements don’t necessarily need to include every detail of birth information. There are some issues you may prefer not to include. For example, you do not have to include the height and weight information for a baby who was born premature. That doesn’t mean you can’t go ahead and include a photo of your new arrival so your friends and family can get a first glimpse.
If you’ve adopted a baby, you might also have questions about the ways to deal with those baby photo announcements. On the bright side, the rules really aren’t that different. You might want to include any birth details you do have. Otherwise, just leave off anything you don’t know. If your new bundle of joy was adopted from another country, you can include that information on the baby Photo Birth Announcements. That can stop recipients from speculating about your child’s origins.
Other Unusual Circumstances for Announcements
When you’re sending printed photo announcements as a single parent, you might also feel a bit unsure how to include yourself on the cards. If you were recently widowed, for example, you would include your name followed by “and the late John Doe.” For other single parents, it’s completely acceptable to only list your name. You may want to include the name of the other parent but only if they find such an addition to the photo baby invitations acceptable. Otherwise, leave them off.
Divorced couples who have just had a new baby fall into a similar category. For them, separate custom photo announcements should be sent.
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How to adopt a baby in the US?My husband and I are thinking about adopting a baby down the road. We'd like to adopt from here in the US, and preferably a newborn. We have no idea where to start or how far in advance we need to begin or what we need to do, or how much it costs ect. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and God bless!
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By leaving them in their country. Why can't you adopt an Indian child from the US foster care system? There are so many sweet kids in your area who NEED a family to love them.
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One option you might consider is fostering-to-adopt. You can enroll in a foster care program and specify that you would like to foster children with the hope to adopt them — the agency will place you with children who are likely to require permanant adoption rather than just foster care. The down side is you have less choice on the type of child than in a traditional adoption program, but the up side is that there is little to no cost to you (and you often get paid, in fact, for fostering).
I am a foster mom, and have adopted three. One was actually in my oldest daughter's foster home (she and her husband were a group foster home). I knew him well from birth, he became my adoption placement when he was a year old, and we finalized when he was eighteen months old. We had gotten a foster/adopt license when we adopted him, so we began fostering for the state again. One week after we finalized our sons adoption, the little girl who became our adopted daughter came to live with us, she was two and a half, and we finalized her adoption when she was four. Six weeks after her adoption was final, we were asked to take her five month old baby brother, and we did. We finalized his adoption when he was three days from eighteen months old last January.
Other than the fact there was one social worker who was determined to place our first adopted child with someone else, it wasn't hard to adopt through the foster care system – IF you are a foster parent.
Two reasons. One is simple supply and demand. There are not as many children available verus the number of adoptive parents. This is especially true about white children. Unfortunate to say, but if you wanted or did not care if the child was black/hispanic the wait time would be much shorter.
The second difference is that adoption has evolved a great deal and birthparents are very active in the process (not many baby's left at doorsteps anymore). As such, the birthparents (or at least birth mother) are actively involved in the selection process. This is where the US is much harder in my opinion, b/c it is a bit of a beauty contest or competition amongst adoptive parents. There is only so many times you can be looked over before you get dejected. Having said that, sometimes it works well, as in our case, where we have a wonderful adopted girl from the US, and it only took 6 months, but that's a whole other story.
Don't give up, but definately look into foreign adoptions. That is where we are going even though we had good luck in the US. Just cannot do the beauty contest thing.
One last thing, in most reputable adoption, the birthmother relinqueshes all of her rights, it is irrevokeable. The law is on your side if you adopt properly. Anyone who tells you otherwise knows nothing about the adoption process. All the high profile cases of birth parents re-entering the picture were considered high risk adoptions, often brokered through a lawyer or possibly the birthparents were not offered counseling and legal represenation. Many states require that you pay for their lawyer and counselling, to make sure they know what they are doing, b/c its irrovolkable. Use a good agency if you go down this route. No internet offers, or lawyer brokered transactions in my opinion.
The easist way is to NOT adopt this baby.
You cannot do it LEGALLY without an attorney for you and you CANNOT do it ETHICALLY without an attorney for the mother as well. Which, again, ethically, you should NOT pay for…or it becomes a conflict of interest.
You also CANNOT know, nor can this expectant mom, that she is ready and willing to place her child. She will Not be able to determine this until after the baby is born. Birth changes everything.
It sounds like you think that mothers just love giving away their babies….me thinks you need to do some more research into the realities of adoption loss for mothers and also for the adoptees. It's not a cake walk for anyone at all.
If he does not want to give the baby up for adoption he doesn't have to. If the mother doesn't want the baby your son has the right to full custody. Contact a lawyer asap to ensure he gets his rights.
Because just like you're making the assumption that they are CRACK babies many other people are doing the same thing. A lot of people don't want to deal with children with problems or learning disabilities. So they adopt children overseas because they feel their only problem is hunger. But it has always made me angry when people adopt all those babies in other countries when they could adopt a child here and help not only the life of that child but also the lives of all Americans paying for the government agency to tend to the care of these lost children.