Moderator: Margot Logan
Executive Director - Forever Families Home Study Agency
Margot Logan is the executive director of Forever Families Home Study Agency. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LSCW) with over 20 years of professional experience, Margot also co-facilitates ...
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Margot Logan is the executive director of Forever Families Home Study Agency. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LSCW) with over 20 years of professional experience, Margot also co-facilitates a monthly adoptive parent support group, and conducts private mental health counseling, including post-adoption counseling. Margot is currently a member of the Oviedo Winter Springs Chamber of Commerce and a volunteer of the HOPE Foundation and One Church One Child. She and her husband were named "Adoptive Parents of the Year" for the Little City Foundation while living in Illinois, and we were featured in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Margot holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago as well as a Master of Social Work (MSW) Degree from Loyola University of Chicago. hide
visit: http://www.foreverfamilieshomestudies.com
10 Adoption Myths
There are many myths surrounding adoption. As an adoptive mother, home study provider, and therapist, here are my "Top 10" and the truth from my professional and personal experiences.
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Opening Your Eyes to Open Adoption
Adoption has changed a great deal over the years. In the beginning, it was usually a means for an unmarried pregnant woman to rid herself of her shameful secret. The adoption file was sealed, and it was virtually impossible to obtain information about either the birthparents or the adoptee. Then the pendulum swung the other way. Now some families, birth and adoptive, develop friendships and have frequent contact.Try to visualize an open adoption. Is it the adoptive and birth families spending every holiday and birthday together? Is it a confused adoptee thinking that he or she has two sets of parents? Is it a birthmother showing up at the adoptive family's door, demanding her child back? It is scenarios like these that lead prospective adoptive parents to choose either a totally closed or even an international adoption. But what is the reality of an open adoption?Adoptions can have different levels of openness. Some birth and adoptive parents choose to meet before, during,...
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As a daughter, mother, and family woman, it breaks my heart to know that so many children enter the world without a set of parents. Thankfully, there are adoption agencies that help find loving and safe homes for these children. An adoptive mother herself, Margot Logan has dedicated her life to this cause, conducting home studies to help families adopt children.
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