Famous people adopting children.

Thank goodness for rigorous social services in GB. Due to them, my lovely little GC has a loving, safe, nurturing home, my son and daughter in law are delighted parents, and I am a devoted grandmother once more .
I am mindful of the loss for the birth family, but they were unable to keep a previous child safe, so this is the best outcome.
I can't speak for others, but would expect a robust scrutiny would apply to all adopters famous or not.
Surrogacy, of course, is a whole different ballgame.

My work colleagues daughter adopted her first child.
Work colleague wasn't allowed to meet said child for 3 months.
This was so parents and child could bond.
Now WC is so close to the child.
They are just going through the process of adopting another child.
So pleased for the family.

There are some awfully sad stories coming out concerning our adoption services.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n0hg

Know quite a few people who have adopted children, all that matters is there were and are wanted. My d doesn't speak to me or any of her family and I gave birth to her, non of us can guarantee how they will be as adults, I am totally against surrogacy though and would never have IVF. I feel worried for all children in the care system, how much better to be part of a family that really wanted them.

My Husband and I adopted 2 children, a boy and a girl.Social services are very thorough in expecting references .When you are first given the child the adopting is not automatic.Social services visit to see that all is going well before the actual adoption takes place.

I’m glad to hear it’s not as bad as I feared BlessedArt.

I don’t think the adoption system is perfect here either. But I’m sorry to hear that in your experience the fostering system in the US is so bad.

Crossstitchfan

Nightsky2

Greciangirl

Naomi Campbell has apparently adopted two babies at separate intervals.

You never see or hear anything about them.
She always seems to be working and looking glam.
I do wonder how these adopted children fare when their parents are famous.

Naomi Campbell didn’t adopt her 2 children. Both her children a girl and a boy were born in 1921 and 1923 via surrogacy.

Don’t think the birth years cn be right??!

You think so 😂

Nightsky2

Greciangirl

Naomi Campbell has apparently adopted two babies at separate intervals.

You never see or hear anything about them.
She always seems to be working and looking glam.
I do wonder how these adopted children fare when their parents are famous.

Naomi Campbell didn’t adopt her 2 children. Both her children a girl and a boy were born in 1921 and 1923 via surrogacy.

Don’t think the birth years cn be right??!

Kats2

Also i read that her and Dawn French barely speak now..

Who’s ‘her’?

MayBee70

Don’t they have special boxes in America in which people can put newborn babies that they can’t afford to raise! ( or is my memory playing tricks with me?)

They have safe haven laws that designate specific locations where you can “leave” a baby/child without prosecution.

Where I lived, police stations, firehouses, and hospitals were designated safe havens

nightowl

I find it quite shocking (horrifying in fact) that in the US a poor woman might have to consider putting her child up for adoption just to cover medical expenses for the birth.

I gave birth to children in the US. Worked in healthcare for many years there until I returned home. Never saw such a scenario merely based on birth expenses. It’s always much more complicated when adoptions take place. Despite what people think, medical debt doesn’t have as huge an impact on credit and overall financial health as people think, and it’s illegal on the federal level to turn anyone away for emergency care no matter their ability to pay. It’s literally written into US healthcare laws. Giving up a baby due to medical expenses alone is implausible. The truth is that the US foster care system in every single state is a nightmare and adoption is a better option than keeping children in homes rife with abuse and food instability. What I saw in the hospitals were young girls, frequently impregnated by older males. Sometimes these males would even be related. I’m not suggesting this is everyone’s story, but I saw it frequently enough that we had a liaison in the social work department that helped to facilitate adoptions of the babies of under-age mothers. I think it’s easy to judge adoptions from afar. I’ve seen too many abuse and neglect cases to not be grateful for the concept of adoption. So even if celeb relationships tend to falter, at least those adopted children are still in homes where they don’t have to worry about food. They aren’t missing days of school or not bathing due to neglect.

I feel uncomfortable about it because people who are famous tend to be very,very busy and I wonder how available they actually are to look after and tend to a child’s needs. Also the reasons they want to adopt,of course. I suppose that applies to most but perhaps more so to high profile people. We used to foster children and the process to be accepted was very rigorous and that was way back on the 1970s in Australia . I stopped when we had our 4 th child because I just couldn’t give the time and effort to the little ones.

My husband and I adopted a daughter, and two years later we adopted a boy.It did not seem unusual as my Husbands parents had adopted him as a baby.

Yes, I thought Madonna had adopted some children but wasn’t sure.

Madonna swooped into Malawi to adopt hers, circumventing all the legalities for overseas adoption.

Galaxy I think so too.

I can't begin to express my feelings about paid surrogacy, it is one of those things we will look back at in the future and say 'we allowed what to happen?'

Yes there are baby boxes in several states where mothers can leave babies, no questions asked. They are usually poor people or girls from religious communities who have hidden their pregnancies.

Independent adoptions happen more usually with mothers from the higher social classes - students or young women at the start of demanding careers. Adoptive parents favour these and will support them throughout the pregnancy and post natal to achieve the best outcome for their adoptive child.

Greciangirl

Naomi Campbell has apparently adopted two babies at separate intervals.

You never see or hear anything about them.
She always seems to be working and looking glam.
I do wonder how these adopted children fare when their parents are famous.

Naomi Campbell didn’t adopt her 2 children. Both her children a girl and a boy were born in 1921 and 1923 via surrogacy.

Don’t they have special boxes in America in which people can put newborn babies that they can’t afford to raise! ( or is my memory playing tricks with me?)

“According to an article at www.thebalance.com I was reading yesterday, health care costs are the #1 cause of bankruptcy for America’s families. Now, this is not news to me as I frequently counsel with individuals and families who are facing substantial medical and other debt. But what caught my attention was the magnitude of the problem. According to the article, 56 million people struggle with medical debt each year. About 8.9% of these people could not afford to pay anything towards these medical debts. Eleven (11) million of these people ran up high interest credit card debt to pay their medical debts. Think about that for a moment. These people did not have the income to pay their medical debts so they took out a high interest loan to do so. So, for example, if such a person owed $1,000.00 in medical debt and charged it to their credit card at say 28% interest, how much more money that they don’t have will they need to finally pay the “medical” bill? Where is that money going to come from? How do you break out of that cycle?”
This was 2017. I’m sure that, in Trumps America, it’s even worse now. And yet the poor vote for him .

nightowl

I find it quite shocking (horrifying in fact) that in the US a poor woman might have to consider putting her child up for adoption just to cover medical expenses for the birth.

Yes. We criticise the NHS without any real idea of what it would be like without it,

Also i read that her and Dawn French barely speak now..

I find it quite shocking (horrifying in fact) that in the US a poor woman might have to consider putting her child up for adoption just to cover medical expenses for the birth.

And there it is, why do we not wonder how the children of famous people fare.