Review by blueschiz submitted on August, 31, 2009 at 05:26 AM
Adoption Details:
Child's Age: 0y 0m
Start Date: Jan 2009
Status: Referral received
Completion Date: Mar 2009
Time Until Placement: 2 months
Type: Closed, Domestic, Interstate
Special Needs: No
Child from Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pros: Deborah is an adoption facilitator, which is ILLEGAL in most states. She inserts herself into the adoption process as an unnecessary middleman and keeps women from going to legitimate agencies.
We were working with another agency who referred us to Deborah Stevenson and Reachsource as a contact for matching. We spoke with Deborah about this birth mother for several months and were leary, but we were having such a terrible time with the agency that we wanted to be done. The social worker for Adoption Associates ( now A Baby Step Adoption ) assured us that Deborah Stevenson and Reachsource were legitimate. So we sent our matching fee plus the first payment of $500 birth mother expenses and the birth mother evaporated. Poof. "I don't know what's going on. She just stopped calling." And no new leads were presented, which was her agreement - that if the lead fell through she would forward that fee to a new match. WE WERE SCAMMED BY DEBORAH STEVENSON and REACHSOURCE ADOPTIONS. All attempts to resolve the issue were met with "you knew how it worked when you paid." Yes we did and we got NOTHING for our money.
Cons: Deborah is an adoption facilitator, which is ILLEGAL in most states. She inserts herself into the adoption process as an unnecessary middleman and keeps women from going to legitimate agencies.
We were working with another agency who referred us to Deborah Stevenson and Reachsource as a contact for matching. We spoke with Deborah about this birth mother for several months and were leary, but we were having such a terrible time with the agency that we wanted to be done. The social worker for Adoption Associates ( now A Baby Step Adoption ) assured us that Deborah Stevenson and Reachsource were legitimate. So we sent our matching fee plus the first payment of $500 birth mother expenses and the birth mother evaporated. Poof. "I don't know what's going on. She just stopped calling." And no new leads were presented, which was her agreement - that if the lead fell through she would forward that fee to a new match. WE WERE SCAMMED BY DEBORAH STEVENSON and REACHSOURCE ADOPTIONS. All attempts to resolve the issue were met with "you knew how it worked when you paid." Yes we did and we got NOTHING for our money.
Reviews: She was very convincing and soothing to me, a frazzled adoptive mom who was extremely frustrated with the process. She's good at what she does and can convince you to send her money with no contact information for the birth mother. I never would have sent the money if our agency social worker hadn't said they had clients who succeeded through her.
If it sounds like a scam it IS.
