[rainmon]

If my son told me that he had gotten a girl pregnant and she was planning to put the child up for adoption... I think as the grandparents of that child we should have the right to keep that child in our own family as a first choice if possible, rather then to go to complete strangers.
I mean if there are family members willing to adopt, wouldn't that be a good thing????
Even family should have to go through all the hoops like everyone else would, to be approved, but if "approved" shouldn't they have preference over a stranger?
keeping families intact, (if at all possible) should be a priority even in an adoption, I would think....as it seems to me it would be in the best interest of the child to grow up with his own "approved" family then to perfect strangers.
but if the babys father does not even know....then the grandparents won't know....and children are lost.