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Adoption Attorney Felice Webster, shares advice those looking to adopt on how to use the internet to help you to find a birth mother, and how to do it safely
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Birth mothers and adoptive families are connecting on the internet these days. This is a new development that didn't exist in the early days. The internet didn't exist many years ago. Now, the reality is, the internet is allowing couples and birth moms to connect. They are doing it through Facebook. They are doing it through websites that they are putting up. They are doing it through emails to each other. People are connecting that way. There are certain dangers inherent in making matches that way. Those dangers are that you don't know who you are dealing with, so adoptive parents can hear about a birth mother on the internet. They need to make sure that it's a legitimate person and that she's really pregnant. They need to make sure they are not sending money when it's not permissible to do that. I would just caution people when they are going through the internet, they need to have an adoption expert professional advising them to make sure they are complying with the laws, and they are working with good candidates for adoption.

Adoption Attorney Felice Webster, shares advice those looking to adopt on how to use the internet to help you to find a birth mother, and how to do it safely

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Felice Webster

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Felice Webster has been an Adoption Attorney for over 25 years. It is her privilege to help families come together by adoption, both in independent, stepparent, foster parent, and adult adoptions as well as in re-adoptions of internationally adopted children. She is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and the Academy of California Adoption Lawyers. She enjoys being a frequent speaker on adoption and dependency law at adoption seminars and for foster parent agencies. Felice has been married for over 35 years and has two kids.

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