Alright might as well start at the beginning .
As I stated in the About Me section. I was privately adopted. Now what does that mean, you may think.
Just like it sounds, but yes there were lawyers involved as well back then. No the adoption wasn't handled through an agency.
One person, that knew another wanted a child, knew a family member was pregnant but didn't want to have the baby, once it was born. So this parent-wanna-be saved up all their money for whatever was needed (lawyer fees ,clothing, formula). Interestingly enough when the time came, the teenager that gave birth to a baby girl, tossed that said baby to the soon-to-be parent' lawyer as if it were a plastic doll.
The new mother did everything that she was told she had to do, to keep the child. Went through with the visits from what's now called child protective services, and even went before a judge to finalize paperwork and such.
Adoption is the act or fact of legally taking another persons child and bringing it up as ones own or the fact of being adopted.
Now I must tell you , that I'm of Mohawk and Apache descent. Well there are a few minor things as well, but those are the two most notable. That being said the adoption took place around seven to eight years before the Indian Child Welfare Act became law. There are many sites out there that can explain what the I.C.W.A is but my short version of it is this. This act was placed into law to help keep the children within the families, and tribes/nations .