To the editors:
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Miller has relied on incorrect information supporting the popular notion that agencies disrespect birth and adoptive parents and never allow meetings between them. On the contrary, LCFS allows birthmothers to select adoptive parents first by screening biographical letters and then by meeting face-to-face at the agency. This system offers the typical advantages associated with private, open adoptions, while decreasing many of the risks and increasing the preparation of birth and adoptive parents.
LCFS and similar agencies across the country do at least deserve a fair assessment. Not only do they offer well-trained adoption professionals, but some, like LCFS, are also willing to serve as intermediaries and provide a full range of services for private adoptions in which adoptive parents have made initial contact with a birthmother.
