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We get a lot of comments at FirstMotherForum for old posts, and we do post them. But one came in the other day to a blog from last May, Why didn't we resist the social pressures? and it is worth posting here for everyone to read. Fellow blogger First Mom Jane and I relinquished our children in the Sixties, and we sometimes hear that Oh, well, it's different now, birth mothers today make "adoption plans," and we know from reading some blogs that some rattle on about how they made the "right" and "loving" decision.
Where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news & opinions. And vent.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Action is the sincerest form of thanks
Jane |
It’s hard to be thankful when you read the nonsense coming out of celebrity-land.
“If my [twin] sons want to know about their egg donor when they are older, I will be able to show them photos. But she asked that they not have contact,” singer Ricky Martin told People.
Ricky, you burro, don’t you know that you’re consigning your boys to searching faces in shopping malls wondering if that Nordstrom shopper or that woman sipping lattes at Starbucks is their mother.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Protections for Birth Mothers need real mettle, not weak reforms
Lorraine |
So, after dissecting The Adoption Option from the Center for American Progress, let us look at their proposed reforms:
Jane |
Legal counsel. Expectant mothers should have independent legal counsel. We agree. We were stunned, though, to read that legal services are necessary because “the daunting complexity of the adoption system and confusion about the process surely pose a deterrent to some women.”
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Thank you, Betty Jean Lifton!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Liberal Think-Tank Urges Removing Barriers to The Adoption Option...we disagree
Jane |
lorraine |
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Should the Goverment Encourage Women to Choose: The Adoption Option, Part Two
Jane |
"Birth mothers who participated in more recent open adoptions... found that approximately two-thirds reported a feeling of peace about their decision and were very certain they would make the same decision again." This data, reported in The Adoption Option, a report from the Center for American Progress, is from a 1997 study in Marriage and Family Review, and we do not know more about the first mothers who participated in the survey, or the number of them, or how soon after relinquishment did they participate, and if the study was under the auspices of an adoption agency, where the outcome would be influenced by the survey taker.*
Lorraine |
We suspect many of those "at peace" were like Catelynn, a young first mother featured in People, struggling not to cry as she insisted she and Tyler, the baby’s father, did the right thing. When last heard from, the Catelynn and Tyler were planning their nuptials and were hoping that their daughter, now being raised by a North Carolina couple, could be their flower girl.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Encouraging the 'Adoption Option' as public policy
Lorraine |
Is enticing more American women to reject raising their own child in favor of “the adoption option” for their newborns a worthy goal? A liberal think tank in Washington DC thinks so.Yes, Dear Reader, it is true:
Jane |
The Center for American Progress recently released a report ingloriously called The Adoption Option, and in doing so has added its glowing support to the crusade to promote adoption under the guise of protecting"reproductive choice." Now how many mothers who are unable to raise their child are not given the "reproductive choice" of relinquishing their child? How many women say, Oh, if only I had the "choice" of adoption--if only surrendering my child so that it could be raised by two other better-off people than me and have all those advantages, was more available, I would surely choose it?
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Why Become an Adoption Reform Rabble-Rouser
Lorraine |
As many of you know by now, November is National Adoption month. This month provides us all with the opportunity to educate, publicize and celebrate adoption. I wanted to find out from the most important people in the adoption conversation – the parents, what adoption means to them. So I posed that question to multiple adoptive parents I know, “What does adoption mean to you?” This is what I learned...."--National Adoption Center
Now before you go crazy, understand, Dear Reader, that we are coming late to the party
Sunday, November 7, 2010
When an 'Open' Adoption Closes: Help from an adoptive mother
Lorraine |
The following letter was written by an adoptive mother from the state that knows about CLOSED adoptions, Texas.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Australia Apologies for Adoption Policy, sort of
Jane |
Amazing but true, the Western Australia Parliament apologized to mothers who lost children to adoption last week:
“(1) That with regard to past adoption practices, it is now recognised that from the 1940s to the 1980s the legal, health, and welfare system then operating in Western Australia, in many instances, did not strike the correct balance between the goal of minimising the emotional and mental impact of the adoption process on unmarried mothers, with the goal of achieving what was considered at the time to be in the best interests of the child; (emphasis added)”
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