February 2015

380 .9 million profits adoption

Adoption Research & Statistics, Adoption Truth, Costs of Adoption, The Adoption Industry February 27, 2015

Finally! Accurate Data on Profits in Adoption

So if out of the 14.1 billion is 100% of the revenue, adoption’s 8.2% equals $1,156,200,000.00 in revenue and out of the $380,900,000.00 in profits, adoption’s 8.2% portion results in $31,233,800.00.
Now this “adoption” category does includes both licensed agencies and unlicensed facilitators that arrange adoptions, but does NOT seem to include the attorneys and legal fees.
So REALLY if we want to sound like we know what we are talking about then Adoption services by agencies and facilitators ALONE are supposed to bring in over 30 MILLION dollars in PROFIT in 2015.

More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers, Searches, Surviving Adopted February 27, 2015

When the Lost Get Found

By Laura Marie Scoggins In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage-to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.     – Alex Haley, Roots It was a cold January day with snow on the…

Costs of Adoption, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers, Surviving Adopted February 24, 2015

Surviving Or Thriving

By Laura Marie Scoggins A comment was made on the Surviving Adopted Facebook Page that I should change the title to Thriving Adopted because surviving has such a negative connotation. Here’s the difference: Thrive – grow or develop vigorously. to prosper and flourish. Survive – continue to live or exist in spite of danger or hardship, to remain alive, sustain oneself, pull through, hold on. I’m in the portion of…

More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers, Surviving Adopted February 20, 2015

The Yard Stick

By Laura Marie Scoggins I started playing piano at a young age. I think first grade. I’ve always loved music, and I think I would have been good at it except there was only one problem. My mother sitting on the couch next to the piano nagging, criticizing, nit picking, and yelling. Then I would start crying and refuse to practice anymore. That’s when the yard stick would come out….

More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers, Surviving Adopted February 20, 2015

The Shame and Blame Game

By Laura Marie Scoggins Recently I scanned photos from family photo albums to digitize everything. They were photos from my parents childhoods all the way up to current day. One common theme I noticed was how miserable my mother looked in so many of those photos. What caused that look on her face? What demons was she fighting? What caused her to panic and obsessively worry about everything to the…

Adoption News, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers February 19, 2015

Stop Shorstein Network – Open Adoption Fraud

By Susie I previously posted about the Shorstein Advocacy Group and the filing of a class-action lawsuit against them.  I was recently contacted and asked to help spread the word that they hope to file the lawsuit this summer. If you were defrauded by the promise of open adoption in the state of Florida since 1990, please join this class-action lawsuit. Here is the info I received: We have updated…

A Birthmothers Life, Adoptee Rights, Relinquishment February 18, 2015

Four Birthmothers – for Mothers

I feel blessed and honored to have been included in the filming of this piece.
The last day of the AAC Conference in San Francisco last year, I heard Jean wanted to film some birthmothers and I volunteered. So we sat in a room and talked about our experiences relinquishing our children to adoption.
Then Jean Strauss worked her magic and this is the end result

Adoption Truth, Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers February 18, 2015

10 Really Shocking Facts of Child Adoption

By Mirah Riben Is it shocking that a “social worker will make sure that your entire home is baby-proofed before you bring [an adopted] baby home”? Alison Caporimo thinks so. Caporimo, who is fond of lists and has written them about staying safe while dating online, retro diners, and “17 Badass Ways Women Can Rock a Suit” now brings her Jill-of-all-trades approach to “17 Shocking Things Everyone Should Know About…

A Birthmothers Life, Birthmother Regrets & Lessons, Finding Christopher Finding Myself, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers February 18, 2015

The Strings of Life (Re-Post)

By Susie This is a re-post that was originally published on June 14, 2012: I stumbled onto the writing of Dabeshim a couple of days ago.  One of his poemscaught me from the very first stanza.  I again am amazed at how the words of someone adopted can be so meaningful to me as a mother of adoption loss.  Below is the poem, interspersed with my own rambling thoughts brought…

Not folled, not helpless, not needing protection

A Birthmothers Life, A Father's Right, Adoptee Rights, Cultural Views on Adoption February 13, 2015

Sexism within the OBC Adoption Records Issue

When a man fathers a child and chooses, for whatever reason, to ignore the existence of that child, do we respect his wishes overall and grant him his right to his anonymity? No.. so why do mothers receive this “protection” ? Why are we ONLY concerned with the mothers? If this fear was legitimate, then wouldn’t it be fair and expected to extend that concerned to the father’s as well? Should not all people be protected, then, from long lost relatives that might infringe upon their lives and seek out relationships with them?

So You Have Had a Run in with Those Anti-Adoption People

Community, Cultural Views on Adoption February 9, 2015

So You Have Had a Run in with Those Anti-Adoption People

The simple fact is that these “negative” feelings about adoption DO exist and are VERY REAL. And while I understand that society and the media and the adoption professionals have not prepared you for this, if you are choosing to enter into the world of adoption, you actually don’t get to pick and choose a version of reality that you like best. Again, you can choose not to listen and hear them, but it’s all still here. We are not making this stuff up.

Adoption News, Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers, The Adoption Industry February 9, 2015

Flip-Flopping on Adoption: Aussie PM Proposes Shopping for Kids

By Mirah Riben In March 2013 Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard issued a national apology for forced adoptions of the 20th century. The apology, which recognized the coercion and exploitation of mothers in order to obtain children to meet a demand for adoption, was viewed by the worldwide adoption community with admiration, appreciation and the hope that it signaled a major step forward against unethical adoption practices. When the apology…