I have no use for this thing. Really, he is UNWANTED. So, I am auctioning him off just like a real adoptee baby who needs a real family to love him. I RELINQUISH him, but not playing any games here. Not making this look all pretty with nice bows and rainbows. He goes to the highest bidder. If you want the doll, you got to pay for it.
Public Hearing on NYS Adoptee Rights January 31st
When: January 31st, 2014 at 10 a.m.
Where: 250 Broadway 19 floor, Room 1923, in Manhattan, New York
Who: Unsealed Initiative
“Building Bridges for Change”
When: April 9th to 13th, 2014
Where: Parc 55 Wyndham San Francisco – Union Square 55 Cyril Magnin Street San Francisco CA 94102
Who: American Adoption Conference
Bonus: I’ll be there!
Often, because I spend much of my time & energy pointing out the negative aspects of adoption, I have been called “anti-adoption”. The very concept of those two words applied together — “anti” and “adoption” — are met with disbelief. But before you are horrified and that title is cast upon my head like a noose, I would like to explain what the words, anti-adoption, mean in my world, You might just find that you agree.
Why it’s considered socially acceptable to permanently seal people’s original birth certificates from them and treat them like perpetual children!
Contact Governor Kasich encouraging him to sign the bill that allows Ohio adoptees adopted 1964 to 1996 to access to their Original Birth Certificate upon request at age 18, starting one year from bill enactment date!
Thought I would share the newsletter from Access Connecticut….Important News from ACCESS CT on Adoptee Rights and the fight to free adoption records in CT and OBC access. Meeting this week Dec 7th!
Little did I know when I made up the rainbow vomiting gnome #NAAM2013 shirts the word “barely” survived would be appropriate for me.
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.
CHIFF was created to INCREASE INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS and was written by the well-organized and highly orchestrated adoption industry lobby machine.
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??
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
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.
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.
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.