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Sobriquet's blogThe Eight Great Fallacies of AdoptionThe Eight Great Fallacies of Adoption Adoption is one of those subjects that everyone thinks they know something about – and has an opinion on. Unfortunately, many of these opinions are wrong, since most people are not adopted, and have no first-hand experience of the adoption process or the effects it has on the families involved in adoption. There are many fallacies concerning adoption – some of them may surprise you! NYT censors adoptees' responses to this gem from their Relative Choices series on adoptionhttp://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/the-real-thing/ November 12, 2007, 7:24 pm By Tama Janowitz My husband Tim and I adopted our daughter Willow, who is now 12, from China when she was 9 months old. We were told by the adoption agency that once the process was complete and the three of us were back home, many people would stop to inquire about our daughter’s Mongolian features or why she did not look like us.
Jesus Babies or "Family Sees Divinity in Pending Adoption"Story available at http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/22/news/local/35-adoption.txt Published on Friday, June 22, 2007. By DIANE COCHRAN Later this year, the Moores plan to adopt two children from an orphanage in Jinja, Uganda. They have three biological children - Jaden, 6; Kellen, 4; and Sage, 2.
Coming OutA young Asian adoptee "comes out" to his white, traditional parents. More modern mayhem from Seattle's sketch comedy institution. Featuring Brian Beckley, Edward T. Tonai and Yvette Zaepfel.
Adoption is NOT A Reproductive Rights Issuehttp://bastardnation.blogspot.com/2006/02/adoption-is-not-reproductive-r... Sunday, February 26, 2006 Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization proudly publishes this essay by Maryanne Cohen, a birth mother and long time member of Bastard Nation. Please forward freely with accurate attribution. ------- Adoption is NOT A Reproductive Rights Issue Report urges open access to records for adult adopteesDo you have access to your original birth certificate? Yes. (Unless you are an adoptee born in most states in the US.) Should adoptees have the same civil right as any other American citizen to have access to their own original birth certificates and their own legal documents? Yes. Otherwise, it becomes a question of who owns your identity and your information, you or the state? A person's identity becomes a privilege granted only to a majority class. Here's an article from the Chicago Tribune urging open access. Reclaiming Ownership of My Historyhttp://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/reclaiming-ownership... November 11, 2007, 7:48 pm By Sumeia Williams My dad had been serving his tour of duty in Vietnam when he’d decided to adopt. He and my mother had already had two boys and wanted a girl. In 1970, toward the last six months of his tour, he’d come across me in an orphanage and taken me home. At least, that’s what I’d been told as a child.
The Demand for Daughtersexcerpts from http://www.slate.com/id/2093899/ "Numbers vary, but it's pretty safe to say that somewhere between 70 percent and 90 percent of parents looking to adopt register some preference for a girl with an agency." "And, as the case of Cambodia suggests, demand can in fact exert an influence on supply—and not a happy one."
Young Texan mother and her newborn baby, saying goodbye.
Watermelon Hill: Giving Birth In SecretRecent women's history. Minnesota. Of course, this happened all over the United States to millions of American women. _______________________________________________________________ * Nov 4, 2007 9:45 am US/Central Watermelon Hill: Giving Birth In Secret St. Paul (WCCO) ― Hundreds of girls were forced to give away their babies during a time when society did not accept unwed mothers. Some of the girls were sent to a place in St. Paul nicknamed "Watermelon Hill". Click here for video and/or written story
India's new outsourcing business - wombsThere's more than one way to get an adoptee. I have to wonder how these women and the children they bear will feel about this in the future. Money, money, money. ______________________________________________________________ India's new outsourcing business - wombs
Took too long deciding between the jade and the redso I missed this auction, but I see they can still be bought in bulk. http://cgi.ebay.com/Adoption-Bracelet-for-Chinese-Adopted-Children-RED_W... Just think of how wanted and loved one would feel when Mommy makes money off selling these bracelets on eBay. Aw. _____________________________________________________________ November is Adoption Awareness Month.
Child I Cannot ClaimOpen Records of closed adoptions video, from the viewpoint of the first mother. (note: petitions for the original birth certificate are often denied, unlike in this slide show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amoGJUyU7iQ Give adoptees their original birth certificates!
I didn't like my adopted daughter so I gave her backIn today's adoption-related news, the euphemism for this is an "adoption disruption" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=... I didn't like my adopted daughter so I gave her back Last updated at 08:31am on 8th November 2007
The adoption vs. abortion myth: Why politicians are wrong to trumpet the former as a solution to the latterhttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-richards29oct29,0... The adoption vs. abortion myth Striving to find the "middle ground" on abortion -- that is, coming up with ways acceptable to pro-choice and pro-life Americans alike to reduce the number of abortions in the United States -- is a worthwhile undertaking. But it also has given rise to some fairly resilient myths about the best way to achieve this goal. When I was Garbage by Allison CrewsReposted from GirlMom.com Worth reading if you haven't yet. ___________________________________________________________ When I was Garbage by Allison Crews
Billion-dollar baby trade: The darker side of adoptionI would like to know who here has been encouraged, coaxed or approached at any time or in any way to give their unborn or born child to adoption? Thanks! ________________________________________________________________ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=... Billion-dollar baby trade: The darker side of adoption No one can begrudge Foreign Secretary David Milliband the joy of adopting a second child from America. But as a Mail investigation reveals, there's a much darker side to adopting. At first glance they look like dating websites; hundreds of happy couples captured in soft-focus photographs, waxing lyrical about their love for each other. But read on, and you quickly discover that these chocolate-box perfect husbands and wives have something far more serious on their minds.
Adoption And The Role Of The Religious Righthttp://countercurrents.org/riben041107.htm Adoption And The Role Of The Religious Right November is National Adoption Awareness Month: time to take stock and rethink our adoption practices and goals. Recent headlines reveal such contradictions as: - 3,700 U.S. families in the process of adopting children from Guatemala are concerned, upset and unsure about their pending adoption because of Guatemala’s crack down on child trafficking.
Thick as Thieveshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyu4E9Bhi9E ....I swear I'll make it right.
Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward HoweHappy Mother's Day, Hipmamas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mother's Day Proclamation Arise, then, women of this day! Say firmly: Feminist moms over 40? Where are you?Where do the older HipMamas go? Who here is 40 and above? Lurkers? Active posters? Please let me know if you're reading. If you know of a place online where intelligent feminist progressive moms are talking, would you mind sharing either here or PM me? 40-50 year-olds would be best. Thank you!
Dance Dance RevolutionOkay - what is the scoop? I have been looking for ages online for a Mario Mix DDR game for my kids (we only have GameCube) but it seems to be discontinued and I am unwilling to cough up the eBay prices for a $50 game. What other options are there? Anyone have teens or kids who enjoy doing this? Or maybe you do it with your bad, bad self? Ain't that the truth?"Because woman's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a 'real' man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and 'unfeminine' and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots and lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement."
AP: S.D. voters reject law banning almost all abortionsWay to go, South Dakotans. 55 to 45 percent. http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9991
Go vote!No babysitter? Take the kids. Raining? Take an umbrella. Is there a hot race near you? Interesting election result maps from 2004 Presidential election, check it out:
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