Create the Next Wave
WHO: American Adoption Congress in connection with Adoption Network Cleveland
WHEN: 04/10/2013 to 04/14/2013
WHERE: Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Cleveland @ 1100 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
BONUS: I’ll be presenting on a panel on April 11
Making Children and Families a Priority: Raising the Bar.
WHO: Child Welfare League of America
WHEN: 04/14/2013 to 04/17/2013
WHERE: Hyatt Regency Crystal City 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway Washington, DC
Your Rights, Your Protest!
WHO: Adoptee Rights Coalition
Dates: 08/11/2012 – 08/13/2012
WHERE: Atlanta, Georgia
EMAIL: ARC@AdopteeRightsCoalition.com
BONUS; I’ll be there with my pom poms!
This year I will be “celebrating” my 25 year anniversary of being adopted affected. I have been a birthmother for 25 years. Smack dab in the middle of all the pro-adoption hoopla is my “Gotcha” day. I usually say that I would just like to sleep through the whole damn month and frequently, I do end up hiding or at least staying off line and NOT dealing with adoption.
WHO: Foster Family-based Treatment Organization
WHEN: 07/28/2013 – 07/31/2013
WHERE: Gaylord Opryland® Resort & Convention Center Nashville, TN
Granted I already wrote about what’s wrong with the Adoption tax Credit, but I’m just SLIGHTLY more excited about it being in the New York Times. With my picture and links to here and the Adoptee Rights Coalition.You know..because it’s THE NEW YORK TIMES
What in Sam Hill is the Adoption Army? The short answer is that you are just signing up for my mailing list. Typical application of a required email address and all that. I promise not to sell your email or spam you. The long answer is a bit more complicated.
While the original adoption tax credit was created to benefit the adoptions of special needs children, successful lobbying from adoptive parents and the adoption lobbyists have increased the credit by both the amount refunded and the range of adoptions covered.
The Adoption Tax Credit now covers expenses paid in an unsuccessful attempt to adopt an child before finalizing the adoption of another child can qualify for the credit. The Adoption Tax Credit now applies to domestic and international adoptions.
A Call for Help After Adoption Corruption in San Antonio I have never endorsed an Adoption Agency, but I am not above helping a good one especially when they are on the side of right. This is one of the cases. Earlier this year one of Texas’ largest and most notorious adoption agencies went under. Adoption Services Associates, or ASA as it was “affectingly” abruptly shut its doors and claimed…
Now, I don’t subscribe to any version of “it’s meant to be” in AdoptionLand. I was not destined to be a birthmother and lose my child unnecessary just to make someone else’s dreams come true, but there are silver linings to this life I have now. If I have to be a birthmother, I am a pretty damn happy one. Since I cannot change my past, all the hurt and sadness an anger have a healthy direction to go in.
Once again, the feelings of community, accomplishment and even the snail’s pace of progress in Adoptee Rights filled my heart and soul with renewed vigor and purpose. Plus, again, one of the only good aspect of this adoption journey has been the wonderful people I have been blessed to know, work with, and call my friends.
We knew there were bad storms about as Cassi reported driving through them in Iowa. I have seen some huge thunderstorms in my life, but nothing like this. This was the same storm cell that made them evacuate Lalapalooza in Chicago yesterday. I knew it was bad. I knew we were in tornado country. I watch storm chasers. I know what hail and cloud hooks and circular wind patterns mean.
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…
Adoption was supposed to be the thing that let me move on with my life as if I was not a mother. 25 years later, I never expected to see us on the front page of Yahoo news; about adoption of course.