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• Equal Access Letter in Print

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 135
  Pass the New Jersey Adoptees Birthright Bill (A-752). New Jerseys adopted citizens are discriminated against and denied the simple human right to look at their own birth certificates -- a right all others take for granted.The time has more than come to rectify this miscarriage of justice. The ...
  3 days ago

• Children “Waiting”

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 109
  http://www.tmklaw.com/waiting_children.php I can’t believe that anyone in this day and age, with so much information available thinks adoption is a good idea for their child. Somewhere I read once that adoption makes as much sense as leaving your baby on a bus, I totally agree. I can’t imagine how I would ...
  1 week ago

• Six-year old ELF is still a good adoption yarn

  
  O Solo Mama — Authority: 414
  We’re incurable Christmas nutters here and watch Christmas movies at least every other night. Last night we watched Elf and I was struck again by what a nice adoption storyline it has. What I like about it: No one’s a complete rat and no one’s a suffering saint. Papa Elf doesn’t scream and rage when ...
  1 week ago

• To My Recent Visitors

  
  Land of the Not-So-Calm — Authority: 109
  To the adoptive parents who are visiting here from the Adoption Parenting Yahoo list:I am not sure exactly what it was about my previous, relatively content-free post that attracted you all here — especially since it contained an appeal to my fellow adoptees, not adoptive parents.  But whatevs; I’ll add it to the ...
  1 week ago

• New Jersey- let A752 die: the conflation of family medical history with authentic restored access, white outs, and preemptive restraining orders among other nightmare senarios

  
  Baby Love Child — Authority: 103
  Over the past two days Marley ’s already laid out the basics of the situation, so I won’t attempt to rehash her fine work, first go see her posts about the NJ mess: NEW JERSEY: ANYTHING TO GET A BILL PASSED. WE LEAVE EVERYBODY BEHIND! BASTARD NATION’S LETTER TO NJ HOUSE SPEAKER JOSEPH ROBERTS, JR–PLEASE ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Gift of a Miracle

  
  Holt International - Blog — Authority: 109
  A childhood ailment leads to a bright future for a college graduate By Susan Cavendish We adopted Mindy through Holt from South Korea in 1987.  It was discovered shortly after that Mindy had a huge hole in her eardrum. Over the next months, her eardrum deteriorated until there was no eardrum in her left ...
  2 weeks ago

• Birth Mothers Who Want Privacy Should Support Open Adoption Records

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 406
  I mentioned this previously in my blog post on " Adoption BEWareness Month Part II " as well as on OSoloMamas blog , and I think it warrants a post of its own. What I said was: [I]f women dont want the offspring they gave up for adoption to contact them, then they ought to support open adoption records. Because ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lai Liyun

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 437
  5-year-old girl from the Guangdong province in China, was adopted by villager Chen Fengyi, who abused her to the point of facial deformation. Date: 2009-12-08 Placement type: Adoption Type of abuse: Non-lethal physical abuse Abuser: Adoptive father Location Guangzhou, Guangdong China
  2 weeks ago

• Angels and Monsters and Reunion

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 109
  My mother and I had kind of trainwreck of a conversation earlier this week. It was the kind of conversation where I really wonder how it is possible to go forward now. We have had so many of those that I didn’t get it too worked up, I have no confidence in our break-ups. They haven’t helped me anyway, because ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mom accused of abusing 11 adopted kids

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 437
  By: Kristen Cosby/ ActionNewsJax.com November 30, 2009 PONTE VEDRA, Fla.-- A Ponte Vedra woman whose adoption agency was shut down twice is now accused of abusing her own 11 adopted kids. Tedi Hedstrom and her ex- husband have 14 children. They have three grown biological children and 11 adopted kids who still live ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adoptee Voices Needed, Plus More On ABCs Find My Family

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 406
  There is plenty of discussion going on in various media circles about adoptee rights, so be sure to add your two cents. Also some good discussion going on out there about ABCs new Find My Family show, which I mentioned in my previous entry . I still havent decided if its good PR or exploitation, but it really ...
  3 weeks ago

• And Evening with Lee Herrick, hosted by the Boston Korean Adoptees

  
  boston progress radio — Authority: 115
  A few weeks ago, Lee Herrick read poems from his book The Many Miles from Desire and talked about his perspectives as a Korean adoptee. It was a wonderful evening of artistically expressed ideas and feelings, personal stories and conversation.Lee, who teaches at Fresno City College in California and has traveled ...
  4 weeks ago

• Creating Online Business Magazines

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 138
  Today this article will focus on how to find a business niche that is underutilized which you can use to your advantage. By finding a niche starving for information, you will have the inside track at creating online business magazines geared to what they need. One of the keys to creating online business magazines is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Talking about birth certificate access with others

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 109
  Boy, did I preach me up a storm today. *sigh* It is exhausting. I was talking with a very interested man from the ACLU, I mean he was interested once we established that NO, I am not asking the ACLU to find my parents for me, NO, I am not concerned that AB372 will LET adoptees get their birth certificates, ...
  4 weeks ago

• ABCs Find My Family: Is Reality TV Good For Our Rights, Or Adoption Exploitation?

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 406
  Everyone in the adoption community is talking about ABCs new show Find My Family. My question to you: Is reality TV good for adoptee and birth parent rights, or is it exploitation? Many are wondering who is actually doing the searching for Find My Family. I may be stirring up a hornets nest, but heres what ...
  4 weeks ago

• Review: Find My Family

  
  China Adopt Talk — Authority: 127
  I was pretty worried about how this show was going to portray adoption. I was pleasantly surprised that they hired hosts who were adopted and who were sensitive to what was going on.Like it or not, we get to be “adoption educators” to our friends and families, so they’ll understand the things our kids feel [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Blog: # Find My Family & my experience w/the adoptive parents of my son

  
  Pure, Unadulterated Joy — Authority: 115
  By Joy A. Kennelly Seeing as this IS my personal blog, although Ive been putting more of my professional and political stuff on here for higher visibility, I feel like getting personal seeing as the new reality show, Find My Family , is airing tonight for the first time after Dancing with the Stars . Also, since ...
  5 weeks ago

• Discrimination Against Adoptees

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 406
  On the heels of the recent Evan B. Donaldson study , ABC has posted an article concerning discrimination against adoptees. None of the information in the article will be news to us adoptees, who have been familiar with this for decades. For me it started within my adoptive family. I was always the "adopted" ...
  5 weeks ago

• Meltdown

  
  Baby Love Child — Authority: 103
  Joy Madsen apparently had a complete melt-down on the Facebook “alt adoption” group’s discussion boards last night. Some of us have seen this behavior from her time and again over the last three years, particularly in relation to the Adoptee Rights Demonstration/Day for Adoptee Rights though usually ...
  5 weeks ago

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