Anticipating the Darkness of November Back in May
The Story of My Gotcha Day
And why the word makes me cringe in my own words.
But besides me ( because yes, I realize that you might very well have enough of me) , please take note of Darrick Rizzo and what he has been working on.
I met Darrick as he was a fellow paternalist speaker at the St John’s Adoption initiative conference back in May. A birth parent panelist… mean he is one of the more illusive birth fathers in adoption. Completely OUT of the birthparent closet and speaking out.
He wrote a book ( which I still have to read! Sorry Darrick, I will I promise!) talking about he promised open adoption of his son and the reality of this adoption practice in his life.
More About Darrick Rizzo and The OPEN ADOPTION
From the website…
Darrick C. Rizzo lives his life inspired by his son that he put up for adoption when he was a freshman in college. Basketball, cross country & track athlete willing to give it all up to raise his first born, but all of a sudden after 5 months of an unplanned pregnancy his girlfriend brings up the words…Open Adoption…
The Open Adoption (A Birth Father’s Journey) is highly recommended to all that are involved in any capacity of an adoption, especially the adoptive parents. Dedication, motivation, perseverance and faith in God have led him to share his experience as a birth father and and the broken promises to both him and his son.
Fantastic Adoption Interviews from theOpenAdoption.tv
I think Darrick captured a great portion of the attendees at the conference and shared the video platform with anticipation for November’s Adoption Awareness Month. So well worth a watch to see and hear so many known faces telling their stories.
So go watch them on YouTube and make sure you give them a thumbs up and share!
I grew up as the daughter of an adoptee, I was never told this until I was 18 years old the worst part of this was that he was never told the truth about the reasons why this happened . he grew up never being given any information. even after he was over 50 my mother tried to get information. however in a state where there are closed records no information is available. she learned that for a fee of 5000 these can be opened. my feelings about this that all records should never be sealed and should be left open. any child should have the right to know their heritage I is almost a crime yto have this happen to anyoneit is wrong and having to pay for information that should have been revealed years is totally cruel. what happens when that kind of money is not available? open adoption should be a law . this would prevent such mistakes of cousins marrying or other similar things, also give these people some information regarding genetic health conditions. I hope this will be a law in most states and prevent this kind of thing ever happening to anyone.
Mary.. If your father was adopted through a closed records sate than the $500 will be wasted anyway. My guess is a lawyer told her he could petition the courts for that amount, but they almost never open up records anyway. So tell your mom to save the money. It would be better spent going towards the need to open records in the state… nbecasue you are 100% right. YOU have the right to know YOUR true heritage and it is wrong that any government try to control that.