Adoption Road Rage – Welcome to National Adoption Awareness Month 2016
Welcome to National Adoption Awareness Month.
National Adoption Awareness Month
Flipping Learning- Shut Your Pie Hole
Yeah it might be hard sometimes.. for all the parents involved.. adoptive and birth parents…but the role I have taken for #FliptheScript is to just Re-post, re-tweet, re-share, but not redirect. I always remember, it’s not about me. It’s about the adoptee as it always should be. I’m just a parent doing the best I can to support the rights of my child…even though the voices of others.
Just Sitting with It; Not Fighting, Not Struggling, Not Suffering
This is my 27th year post relinquishment, so really, I know what to expect. I know what this feels like. I once wrote about this, comparing it to an old shroud, a mourning veil, a tired worn, threadbare sweater that I must wear until it falls off my bones. Hello darkness, my old friend.
Talking with Darrick Rizzo of The Open Adoption about National Adoption Month
Fantastic Adoption Interviews from theOpenAdoption.tv. Birth father and author Darrick Rizzo captures many attendees of the Adoption Initiative conference talking about Adoption for NAAM. Including me telling my Gotcha story and the hell the month of November.
The Desperate Antics of Adoption Agencies; Finders Fees for Birthmother Recruitment
A Guardian Angel Adoptions is making it known that they want previous clients to do their marketing for them to help them find at risk mothers. The $500 is a finder’s fee. Which in itself is pretty damn gross, but let’s think about this; It’s NOT just for a simple referral. Notice the words “when they have completed a successful adoption” meaning .. when your friend has signed the irrevocable relinquishment consent form for her baby THEN you get the $500.
Whats Wrong with Adoption?
Truthful Views of Adoption Practices in the USA today
Adoption is supposed to be about finding families for the children that need homes. That is the way adoption is sold to society in a carefully homed marketing message as controlled by the adoption industry and reported on by the mass media.
Finding Faults in Current Adoption Practices is NOT “Anti-Adoption”
The truth is that the adoption system is greatly flawed. It is a profit driven industry. Both adoptive parents and natural parents are exploited for what they bring to the table: money for fees and children for transfer. The children adopted are treated like a commodity with the transfer of parental rights to a child bought and sold.
You Can Call Me Anti-Adoption If You Must
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.
Hello December! NAAM2013 is OVER! Whew…
Little did I know when I made up the rainbow vomiting gnome #NAAM2013 shirts the word “barely” survived would be appropriate for me.
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.
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
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.