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Originally Posted By Graham

Hi everyone. Does anybody agree that the title "Special Needs" is rather old fashioned? We're really talking about foster child adoption, or older child adoption or all adoptions that are not of new born infants...... Is there support for changing the forum name to better describe its content? If so, what name shall we give it? Thanks for your help.

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We really enjoy this forum and do agree "special needs" may be outdated ... is there any child, birth, foster or adopted, who does not have some sort of special need - the most of all love - ?

Not sure what would be good but maybe something that incorporates ... making families forever always ...

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Originally Posted By Tammy

I dont feel it is outdated. People understand Special Needs and as far as I know, there isn't a well known updated term to use. Maybe you all know of a better name

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Originally Posted By yrand

I can't think of anything else either.I don't really think it matters that much because Special Needs covers so much ground.
We have the most popular forum because of the various topics
that fall into this category.

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Originally Posted By Debbie

If I were doing a search on the internet for information about

older children adoptions, I would probably search under

"special needs". That is what brought me to the forum. So a

name change may cause others not to find the forum. I may '

not be an expert in using the forum, as I have to scroll

through all the old posts every time I look at the board. Or

everytime I read a post, it takes me back to the beginning

of the posts and I have to scroll through them again. Do

you ever archive the old posts and start over?

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Message board is archived when the number of messages are around 100 or more.

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I've never liked the phrase "Special Needs". The first few times I heard it I assoicated it with a handicap (I mean disablity).

To suggest that because a child is...

- Older than 6

- A "minority"

- Member of a sibling group

- Has unique psycological or phycial requirements

...only makes the child less desirable to those poking into the notion of adopting.

Why not

GREAT KIDS,

OUR KIDS,

I don't know something positive, upbeat...