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Where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news & opinions. And vent.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Kidnapping and Corruption in Chinese Adoptions
Monday, March 28, 2011
When Disaster Strikes, Adoption is Sure to Follow, Part II (and III)
Would-be adopters have begun circling Japan in the wake of the tragic earthquake and tsunami earlier this month. First Mother Forum readers may recall that after the January 11, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Catholic Charities and other south Florida groups planned a massive airlift of perhaps several thousand of children thought to have been orphaned (When Disaster Strikes, Adoption is Sure to Follow).
Friday, March 25, 2011
Madonna's Malawi charity fails and Ethiopian adoptions shut down to a trickle: Could there be abuse in the system?
Lorraine |
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Baby Vanessa: The law worked; no need to change it
Would-be adoptive parent Stacey Doss, has vowed to go to “Capitol Hill and elevate children’s rights so they are equal to parental rights.”
Doss who sought to adopt Vanessa over the objections of the child’s father Benjamin Mills, Jr. has been appointed Vanessa’s permanent guardian with visitation rights granted to Mills, his mother, Rena Jordan, and Vanessa’s biological sisters in a settlement reached by the parties this month after nearly three years of litigation, according to the Dayton Daily News.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Do birth mothers have the right to know who their children became?
Lorraine |
It's legislation time in all of the states and provinces where there is any activity regarding changing the laws. A partial list includes Rhode Island, Missouri, Montana, and of course New Jersey and New York, two states were we've been involved in the process.
But as an adoptee (Robert Wilson) wrote to me recently, why aren't we working for access to the new name and identity
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
State adoption consent laws: the ugly, the bad, the better, and the GOOD
Jane |
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Are we bitter birth mothers?
Lorraine |
It's a word bandied about about birth mothers who are not content with their situation as mothers without children to mother. Call me bitter, and it gives you an excuse to dismiss me, because, y'all know that I haven't accepted reality and made peace with the fact that I relinquished my daughter to an uncertain future. And we birth mothers who relinquished in the Mesozoic Age of shame, shunning and closed adoptions,
Friday, March 11, 2011
New short film about adoptee rights
Bills that put adoptee rights first in giving them back their original identities are in the works in at least
Thursday, March 10, 2011
An LDS birth mother talks about her church, search and reunion, and the LDS position on such matters
Lorraine |
Monday, March 7, 2011
Would I have found my daughter if I had married her father?
Jane and Lorraine in 1983 |
But what of closed adoptions today?
Sunday, March 6, 2011
When you find birth/first parents who have married
Lorraine |
Thursday, March 3, 2011
16 and Pregnant encourages the teen-mom trend
Lorraine |
According to the report at ABC--and there will be more on Nightline tonight at 11:35 p.m.--one of teens featured on "16 and Pregnant," Whitney Purvis said that her turn on the show turned her into a celebrity in her town of Rome, Georgia. Purvis said that the movie, Juno, our least favorite movie of all time, make pregnancy look "cute." Right, she said, cute, and that made her want to participate in the original show on MTV.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
HB 2904 is targeted at LDS Family Services! Absolutely Untrue
MEGAN As suggested by her and with permission |
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