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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Crittenton today: Serving marginalized teens
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Normal in one family may be seen as abnormal in another
Jane and Lorraine, |
I was like, What? What gave you that idea? And of course it was daughter Jane's epilepsy, and her other mother had wondered then if--since they knew so little about me, nothing other than I was Polish--if maybe...since Jane had seizures...maybe there was a history of mental illness. She said that for a while they thought that I might have been in a mental hospital when I had...our daughter. You just sit there and listen, stunned, but betray nothing. I suppose it's not an unreasonable assumption.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
American Dilemma: What happened to one's right to know one's birth parents?
Lorraine |
The push for the new legislation comes following a report by the Law Reform Commission which found that having both the mother and father’s name on a birth certificate could help reinforce a child’s right to know their parents. The Law Reform Commission also warned that without knowledge of who their father is, children could run the risk of “striking up relationships” with people they are unknowingly related to. [Emphasis added.]
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Kidnapped in Guatemala, 'adopted' in America
Lorraine |
The girl was two at the time of the abduction, she spent a year under a different name in an adoption mill before she was adopted by an American couple, Timothy and Jennifer Monahan of Liberty, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Utah's anti-father policies an offshoot of Mormon agenda
Jane |
David Hardy, a Utah adoption attorney affiliated with the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), asserts the laws are fine the way they
are. “The Utah laws may be harsh but they are looking at what’s best for the child:
stable families and two parent families, ” he told The Washington Post. Hardy’s claim supports an agenda to abet and encourage Mormon practices in the state. Is he attempting to make Utah a theocracy? There is supposed to be separation of church and state in the United States of America.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Utah adoption attorney exposes corruption in Utah adoption agencies
Wes Hutchins |
"'The idea that the birth mother can travel from any state
to Utah and be in Utah for two or three days and then give birth to a child and
then leave the state with the sole purpose of cutting off the rights of the
biological father has to stop,’ Hutchins said.”
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Does Mother's Day make birth mothers blue? YES.
Lorraine |
I've made myself pretty clear about how I feel about "birth mother * celebrations" and "birth mother" cards (nix to both, see links below) partially because they are generally the misguided concoction of adoption agencies to "give back" to the wholesale suppliers (that would be mothers) of the commodity they deal in, babies. I say this with the understanding that the Birthmother Day to be observed the day before Mother's Day was the brainchild of birth mothers in Seattle in 1990.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
When your adopted child wants to visit her birth mother....
Marguerite Kelly |
At one time we thought nobody could be worse than the late Ann
Landers and Dr. Laura, both staunch opponents of open records and reunions. But then along came Washington
Post writer, Carolyn Hax. She published a guest opinion by a grandma who
regretted that her daughter had kept her child, the writer’s grandchild, totally
oblivious to the pain and loss that adoption brings to mothers, children and grandparents.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Deconstructing the responses to Adopted or Abducted with kudos to the Crittenton Foundation
Lorraine, recently in DC |
Then I moved onto trying to download the Dan Rather Report: Adopted or Abducted from iTunes for $1.99 and after giving Apple my name, my birthdate, answering security questions such as what was your first car (answer for anybody who wants to know my deep secrets, Karmann Ghia); your favorite car (MG); and where I had my least favorite job (ah! at that hash house where the owner drove me home one night and wanted me to put out, and when I didn't, fired me the next day, but there wasn't room for all that), my billing address, telephone number, a user name and a password with at least 8 characters, one Capital letter and at least two numbers! and no two of the same characters in a row, and my credit card number...I had to go back and re-register and ah ha! I kept getting error messages. Kinda like what I was hearing from my daughter's father when I tried to talk about keeping our baby...but then he would have had to get off his duff and leave his wife like he said he was going to. By the time he did, it was too late. Way too late.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
In the Sixties: Was I 'forced' to give up my baby?
Lorraine at work, 2 years later. I was engaged to be married. |
But of course I've thought back about that time in the Sixties when I felt I had no choice other than to relinquish. My baby's father was a married man--and not married to me; I was so embarrassed that though I was less than a year out of college, I did not tell my parents, back in Michigan, while I hide in secrecy in Rochester, New York. Who even knew I was pregnant? Only a few: Patrick, the father, my lover; eventually our boss, the
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