The Eight Great Fallacies of Adoption
Anne D. Slagle, adoptee

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!

http://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/the-real-thing/

November 12, 2007, 7:24 pm
The Real Thing

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.

Story available at http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/22/news/local/35-adoption.txt

Published on Friday, June 22, 2007.
Last modified on 6/22/2007 at 1:55 am
Family sees divinity in pending adoption

By DIANE COCHRAN
Of The Gazette Staff
Jenny and Todd Moore weren't surprised to feel a higher power nudging them into action, but the direction the nudge sent them was a bit startling.

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.

A 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.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AAMePmDCcw8

http://bastardnation.blogspot.com/2006/02/adoption-is-not-reproductive-r...

Sunday, February 26, 2006
Adoption is NOT A Reproductive Rights Issue

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.

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Adoption is NOT A Reproductive Rights Issue
by Maryanne Cohen

Do 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.
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http://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/reclaiming-ownership...

November 11, 2007, 7:48 pm
Reclaiming Ownership of My History

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.

excerpts 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."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LpZKNkDSo70
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bQbtxhvsKA0

Recent women's history. Minnesota.

Of course, this happened all over the United States to millions of American women.

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* Nov 4, 2007 9:45 am US/Central

Watermelon Hill: Giving Birth In Secret
Reporting Don Shelby

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".

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