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Taproot issue 51 - June 2006

Adoption Misinformation costs Agency $409,000

A Boston-area family won a judgement against a local Adoption Agency after claiming that they were given false information to persuade them to adopt twin boys from West Palm Beach over 10 years ago.

While working with Adoptions with Love the founder of the agency gave a false description of the biological mother and the circumstances of the birth. The mother was described as heavy set and from a “Fortune 500” family and that the pregnancy and delivery were uneventful. In fact the mother weighed 260 pounds, she was on Medicaid and suffered from hepatitis and other ailments during the pregnancy. She was in intensive care for two weeks after the birth. Some of the tests on the new-borns were abnormal but these results were dismissed as insignificant.

The twins are now 14years old. One of them has Cerebral Palsy and the other suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive disorder along with other problems

In spite of all their problems the adoptive parents. Thet say that if they had known about these problems they would never have adopted the twins. However once they were placed they became part of the family and they have never considered giving them up.