Comments for Forbidden Family

Comment on Adoptees’ Birth Certificates by Sara

Sara — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:42:33 +0000

Hello! How did you get your hands on your original birth certificate? My real sister was adopted… and her adopted mother told her that her original birth certificate was destroyed.

Comment on California’s Relative CareGiver Law Recognizes Guardianship Over Adoption by Non Family Members by Marlene

Marlene — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:01:23 +0000

I live in Napa, CA. Relative’s being denied consideration for placement is common practice here. YOu are told it’s out of thier hands , nothing they can do. The more you know about your rights and demand that they reconize your rights, they seem to get bent out of shape. CPS raves about how Collen Clark is one the best public defenders in Napa in family court. Maybe for them cause they usually win when up against her. Her clients are yelled at if they seek any advice from anyone other than the people the court has set up for them. Which are the parent advicate from Parents Can, her self, CPS Social Workers & thier attorney, and the judge. She tells them the case is confidential and they are not to discuss it or show anyone thier court papers, not even thier own mother! She is representing a client right now that can hardly read and is struggling with uderstanting her court papers. So she gave her attorney a release of information for her daughter to know everything and recieve paperwork so she could help her mom Understand it. The daughter was looking at the paperwork with her mom in the court lobby before court. Colleen Clark saw her, and yelled at her in front of everyone else in the court house lobby about how they were confidential and she was not allowed to look at them. I’m a little confussed about their confidential policie. If they are so concerned with confidentiality, then why is it that every parent CPS takes to court, they have been given a white 3 ring binder that is labeled on the front cover to keep thier paperwork in order. THey are instructed to not forget to bring it to court with them every time to show they are prepared. Everyone not there for Family COurt knows exactly why the people with the white 3 ring binders are there cause it say’s so on the front of it. That doesn’t seem v ery confidential to me? Her clients daughter has let it be known she is wanting to adopte her brother form day one when he was 4days old. It has been five moths now and she only gets to visit with him once a month for 2 hours. They havn’t even mentioned her in court or the court paper work of her intrest to adopte. The foster mother told her after her visit with her brother, that she didn’t need to buy him any Christmas presents cause she already bought him some and he would be at her house for christmas any ways.

What can a person do when they are being railroaded by CPS and your rights are being ignored by everyone including your own attorney? What should the Daughter do so the courts know that she is an interested party to adopt?

Comment on My Baby Bracelet Found Again by Joan M Wheeler

Joan M Wheeler — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:43:47 +0000

Thank you, Katherine. I think my Mom held onto things from my original family and did not know how to tell me she had them. In the few years before she died, Mom expressed to me that she wanted to give me photos of my natural mother but she held onto them instead of giving them to me. Inside her Cedar Chest, I found the baby clothes my natural father had given to my adopting parents when he relinquished me to them.

Comment on My Baby Bracelet Found Again by Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:26:55 +0000

Possibly your mom forgot it was there. Now that my mom is up in years I am finding things she had completely forgotten she had or saved from our childhood.

Comment on What’s Up With Nancy Grace on Baby Gabriel? by adoption pro

adoption pro — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:56:38 +0000

THANK YOU for your much-needed commentary– did Nancy ever approve your comment? The Smiths had allegedly manipulated circumstances to their own advantage in order to deprive Jack’s daughter’s partner Travis Warford of his parental rights in order to adopt Travis and Nikki’s baby girl (Hannah), but they were NEVER the “adoptive parents” of Baby Gabriel. (And yet, they were all too happy to be errantly identified in the press as such?)

Tammi Smith was criminally-charged and awaits trial; in the meantime, however, she and Jack managed to acquire another baby girl born to Jack’s daughter Nikki last fall, so they are enjoying the opportunity to parent yet another child while Gabriel’s mother rots in jail awaiting trial (having told authorities she gave her child to a couple dispatched by the Smiths), and Gabriel’s father desperately awaits any answer as to whether or not his child is still alive.

The Smiths appear to resemble that unique and terrible breed of “toxic adopters,” those who will go to any lengths to get what they want at any cost to anybody else. Need examples? How about the publicly-released Tempe police department documents about Tammi’s efforts to solicit the baby of a pregnant woman and her boyfriend in an Arizona Jack-In-The-Box prior to Gabriel’s disappearance? Or Tammi’s reported efforts to (unsuccessfully) perform “artificial insemination via turkey baster” on a young client who was falsely told the sperm used came from Tammi’s husband?

Whatever happened to Baby Gabriel, wherever he is today, it seems painfully evident that none of this would have happened had his mother never crossed paths with the likes of Jack and Tammi Smith. Their continued lack of any publicly-expressed concern for his welfare only gives rise to further suspicion that they still know more than they’re telling.