And on Day 22 of National Adoption Awareness Month, She Broke
I could not stand to see nonstop “Yeah Adoption” posts or images or news articles. And 30 days of adoption activism was NOT scheduled and so it just went quiet.
November 2013
What I Didn’t Know About Adoption
I’ve learned to be gentle with my younger self. I really didn’t stand a chance up against that agency. They are very good at their business. They know exactly what to say and withhold. I was a prime, easy target for them and they did not hold back. They pounced and turned the knife to the very end.
Day 21 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 – Help Stop CHIFF WEEK 3 Senate Foreign Relations Committee
CHIFF was created to INCREASE INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS and was written by the well-organized and highly orchestrated adoption industry lobby machine.
Day 20 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 Join CNN I-Reporter
What if on before and after National Adoption Day this Saturday their happened to be a whole bunch of CNN IReports from around the country discussing how everyone of these kids adopted will be henceforth denied their civil rights??
Day 19 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 – Fight for New York’s Adoptee Rights Bill!
Adoptee Rights Demonstration in New York City on Nov 22rd at Governor Cuomo’s New York City Office for Friday November 22rd, 2013. Meet at 633 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10016 at 11:30 AM
Back On HuffPoLIVE for Adoption
They Call it: “Why I Gave My Child Up For Adoption” but it has very little to do with why…but we chat abut adoption on Huffington Post for NAAM2013
Day 18 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 Fathers’ Rights In Utah
Adoption agencies across America routinely screw over fathers and Utah is in the middle of Adoption PR hell, so let’s keep the pressure on. The HEAT is on Utah for their Hugely Unethical Adoption Practices
Day 17 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013
In South Carolina after the relinquishment of parental rights is signed you cannot go back and change your mind or any sort. Twenty-eight (28) states have laws providing a waiting period before relinquishment of parental rights is irrevocable.
Day 16 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 – Virtual Reg Day for the ISRR
In the spirit of the International Soundex Reunion Registry’s Reg Day, please post of share the links today to the ISRR. ISRR is a non-profit mutual consent registry dedicated to reuniting adult family members separated by adoption.
Day 15 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 Help STOP CHIFF
John Kerry needs a bit of educational awareness on how this well-organized and highly orchestrated industry lobbying campaign creates the false impression that CHIFF is actual good and helpful for the welfare of children!
Public Worries and Celebrations; The Adoptee Birthday
Today, I shall find reasons to celebrate. My son was born 26 years ago today and though was separated from him for 19 years and 111 days until I saw him again, his birth is known and celebrated among many people he doesn’t know. A whole community thinks about him on this day and it was his birth that started it all.
Day 14 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 – Engage with Portrait of an Adoption
Introducing What “Anti-Adoption” Means to A New Group of Folks & hopefully reframe the concept of being “anti -adoption” in a way that is palatable for anyone who wants what is best for children and mothers and parents overall. These are very important conversations to have especially when they can reach a wider audience with many who have never even had the reason to think this way before.
Searching for Adoption Healing and Birthmother Advice
It’s bad enough that the adoption industry is still promoting that somehow it is OK to relinquish a baby to adoption and that the long term effects of relinquishment on birthmothers does not exists despite all the scientific research to the quandary. But by putting the impossible task to “healing from relinquishment” on the actual birthmother; they are also setting her up to fail.
10 Things Open Adoption Opened Me To …
Open adoption costs Entering into adoption affects people in profound ways. I cannot speak to the birth mother’s experience or how the kept children may feel (though my siblings have shared some of their feelings with me). But as an adoptee, there were certain costs of adoption to me even in open adoption. Open adoption was supposed to “solve” some of the problems associated with closed adoption such as genetic…
Day 13 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 Demand Post-Adoption Services
When any adoption agency neglects to acknowledge and meet these needs, it is the right of THE constituents of the adoption community to refuse allegiance to the agency, and to insist upon the establishment of new agency approaches.