Why adoption is how it is
Child adoption, as it currently exists in Western law, was first created in an 1851 statute in the state of Massachusetts to deal primarily with the social welfare problem of poverty and “unwanted and...
View Article“Birthmothers” as Incubators
(Originally posted as a page on Facebook, I wanted to share it with my blog readers here as well.) Before the term ‘birthmother” was coined, a mother who had given birth to a child was called that...
View ArticleLies the Adoption Industry Tells …
This is a little list i first began drafting a few years ago which has been sitting on my hard drive ever since. These are the promises, guarantees, and blanket statements that the adoption industry...
View ArticleThey admit it was illegal!
I have always said that the theft of my baby was an illegal adoption. No adoption could be legal when it begins with an abduction, a baby being taken from a tied-down mother against her will, withheld...
View Article“Adoption Ethics” is a Contradiction in Terms
This post was prompted by a thread on an adoption-related discussion board this morning. I wanted to share it here, because even though my thoughts on adoption and ethics might be known by my regular...
View ArticleJustice for Children taken in the Sixties Scoop
Some great news that was published in the paper today is that a lawsuit has been filed by Sixties Scoop survivors, against the government that took them from their parents: Lawsuit filed for ‘Sixties...
View ArticleA Natural Mother
As most of my regular readers know, I refer to myself as a mother, or in relation to adoption, as being the natural mother of an adoptee (or natural mother, for short). I reject the term...
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