30 Days of Adoption Activism
For National Adoption Awareness Month, here’s 30 days of adoption activist activities that you can do instead of just complaining about adoption! Spread Adoption Truths outside the walls of AdoptionLand!
Articles by Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Geeks and Gamers for Good
It wasn’t fully diagnosed until he was 2, but his pediatrician heard his heart murmur soon after birth. It was hoped that it would clear up on its own as many babies have ventricular holes that do closed up, but his didn’t. So, we were referred to a pediatric cardiologist who did all the chest X-rays and EKGs and echo cardiograms. That’s how it was discovered that my oldest parented child was born with not three flaps on his aortic value, but two.
Musings After the Pumpkin Patch…
There will be no memories of perfect pumpkin days with my oldest son. Yes, I am sure his parents are great and he has the proper days in his past, and if I am lucky, maybe someday I will get to see the pictures. ( I have never seen the pictures)
What’s Wrong with Selling Your Baby for an IPhone?
Why does the adoption middle man sanctify the baby trade? What magic fairy dust does an adoption agency or facilitator or lawyer have that makes it morally acceptable? Why is it OK to give a child away, to relinquish your flesh and blood, to place a child, to abandon a child, to make an adoption plan for a child, to give the “gift” of a child, but not just openly sell the privilege to parenting?
Saturday AdoptionLand Recap October 19th, 2013
Must Reads in AdoptionLand the week of October 19, 2013; things to do, places to comment, stuff to share!
Adoption Corruption Never Sleeps
There was a good chance that the adoption might have just gone through if not for a pesky Family Court Judge who noticed the missing ICPC application from the state of Oklahoma and refused to finalize the adoption! Zionks!
Adoption Movie Review: “Approved for Adoption”
It’s not a easy story. It’s not a happy story, but it is not a horrible story either. It is a real story and most of all; it is Jung’s story and it is his truth. While drawn though a child’s eye, he does not cast a child’s feelings on it and gloss over or seem to exaggerates, but rather the same truthful light of recollection is shown on all. He shows the faults and failings of his whole family and himself. It is not a pity party; it is not a movie of blame. The good as well as the bad is reveled. It is a glimpse inside the emotions of moving through.
People Who Should Never Adopt
It’s not an example, not a snarky joke, but a real email exchange. I know, I know.. I should leave well enough alone, but sometimes it is like picking a scab. You know it is gross and it’s gonna hurt, but I. Just. Can’t Stop. Lord help me if this one ever gets his hands on a child. I guess this is what adoption has come to in this country.
Costs of Adoption: Genetic Mirroring
For those non adopted, it might seem easy to dismiss the importance of genetic mirroring since we do not have to think about it. It is just there. But it’s like saying that the air we breathe is not important because we don’t think about it and its just there. If we were to not have oxygen for even a few minutes, each and every one of us would be screaming to have it restored. Genetic mirroring is like that.
Thank God! Marcie Cheney Told Me What I was Doing Wrong!
I opened my email box this morning to receive this note from Marcie Cheney, whom, until she found it necessary to email me, I had no idea who she was at all.She shared her generous critique of how I am ineffective, a liability, preaching to the choir and damaging. Oh, and the standard implication that I have to learn to deal with my “stages of grief.” I love getting unsolicited advice from unknown people even if it does feel like beating a dead horse.
Embracing Change: A New Musings of the Lame
The entire look of Musings of the Lame has changed. This is not a problem, this is an opportunity- Seize it! This birthmother blog is not MY soapbox anymore, but is a platform for all of AdoptionLand who has been branded by adoption- seared for life by the Scarlett letter.
Cease and Desist from the Estate Of Maurice Sendak
I received your letter today regarding the Estate of Maurice Sendak on my blog. I do understand what you must do and I am inclined to amicably resolve the matter, though it would be with great sadness, if that is what must be done.
Saturday AdoptionLand Recap October 5th, 2013
AdoptionLand Recap: Must Reads in AdoptionLand the week of October 5, 2013; things to do, places to comment, stuff to share!
Supporting Obama Care; Remembering the Reality of Being Uninsured
On this very day, October 4th, 2007, I fell of my front porch while hanging Halloween decorations and broke my left arm. Because I did not have health insurance, I lived with a broken arm for 2 years.
Matt and Melanie Capobianco: Lower-Than-The-Lowest Excuse for Human Beings
Why did Matt and Melanie Capobianco CHOOSE to continue fighting for Veronica Rose when didn’t need to be adopted? Because they WANTED to and they could, because they had the money to pay for it. I really do wonder how do these freaking people sleep at night?? I mean how in God’s name are they EVER going to be able to explain this to Veronica?