Topic : 07/27 Adoptions Scams, Part 2

Dear Marie & Chrissy,

You can not let this terrible messed up person destroy your destiny in  being a mother!  Adoption can be difficult, heart wrentching, and tramatic, but it is so worth it in the end.  My husband and I went through two open adoptions and neither of them were anything alike.  But despite how hard they were at times we would have gone through them again to have the two beautiful, wonderful children we now have, they are our world as all children should be to all families.  Unfortunately as a elementary school teacher I know all to well this isn't the case!  So please don't give up, there are children out there waiting for you to come get them and be their moms!!

My heart goes out to these three woman. I hope they don't give up. My husband and I have adopted three wonderful children from our local DSS and have not regretted one day. Also after adopting our oldest three became pregnant and that makes four. Along with that we have a 19 year old foster daughter. Anything is possible. We were just about to give up too and things somehow worked out. Please be strong and be positive that your forever child is out there somewhere.

Shame on that woman for putting you through all that. She should be held responsible for what she did and I hope she does.

I think it is great that you were able to trust the adoptive parents you chose. I do beleive that an open adoption can be wonderful for all involved. I have adopted and birth children. I entered into my son's adoption knowing it would be open because that is what the birth mother wanted. Well, I have sent letters, pictures and school work to my son's "other" mother. I have kept up my part and am sad to say his "other" mother has not kept up her end. Now I do understand there could be many reasons for this. So, in the mean time I will keep sending my letters, pics and info to the agency and hope she one days gets it all.

Now the reason I wrote this was just to say congrats to you.

Proud mom to 5

I too was a victum of this type of Adoption scam... She said her name was Kathy from KY/ Ohio (I have an address) state line... I went through 275 emails with this birth mother for over 4 mo.'s, phonecalls, everything... and a million promisses..., and almost eveything that this Melissa(on the show) has said to these women.... and then our family was on the way to see kathy have the baby and adopt this baby when she disappeared and then said that the baby had died.... Maybe Melissa is the same person???? What a horriable thing to do to someone that  just want to care for and love a child...I have never been so hurt and crushed and I have had a very hard time putting it all to rest.