As one week from today is the Adoptee Rights Demonstration in Chicago, Illinois I would like to propose a celebratory meme. Even if you can’t physically be there, you can help pepper the internet air waves with news and the reasons why you support Adoptee Rights!
The Reaction of the Adoption Community The Oxygen Network’s New Show “I’m Having Their Baby” has caused quite a commotion in the adoption community to say the least. While we have seen expectant mothers considering adoption to be exploited before for entertainment value (The 2004 20/20 Barbara Walters Adoption Special “Be My Baby”) or the brunt of “funny” jokes and black humor (2007’s Juno), the issue isn’t so much the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Adoptee Rights Group Travels To Illinois to Free Original Birth Certificates American Adoptees Denied Civil Rights to Birth Certificate Due to archaic laws that are a legacy of cultural shame stigmatizing infertility, sex, unwed mothers, and adoption, over 90% of all American adoptees will face a life of discrimination unless current laws are changed. Wanting their civil rights restored, the Adoptee Rights Coalition; http://www.adopteerightscoalition.com; adopted…
Lifetime’s Newest Crop of Adoption Mistruths I can’t believe they are still making movies like this. I had to double check the year to make sure, but sure enough this garbage was newly created in 2012 and is a new movie for the lifetime adoption propaganda machine. So this lovely woman finds out she is pregnant and I guess for the the first time in her 34 years she asks…
7/3/13 EDITED TO ADD: This post went live on the morning of July 2, 2013 in it’s original version which is what you see here. Where AdoptHelp.com Rips Off My Personal Branding OK I know that I am not the first person to use a play off the Rosie the Riveter images. I understand that this is an iconic image that has been co-opted in many ways since Pittsburgh…