David Correy |
Where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news & opinions. And vent.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Singer hopes to find birth mother through The X Factor
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Telling the family, and the world: I am a First Mother
Lorraine |
HBO is currently showing The Debt, a drama/thriller movie about three Mossad agents who are to capture a Nazi war criminal in East Berlin and bringing him to justice in Israel. But the plan goes horribly wrong, the "Doctor of Birkenau" (based on the real Josef Mengele) manages to escape while the agents, (one woman, two men) are in hiding with him. However, instead of admitting what happened and coming home a failure, (spoiler alert ahead) the three make a pact to say they killed him, and that they must keep this secret forever.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
A $200 gift allows Oregon mom to keep her baby
Cassandra Daniel and son Elijah |
Daniel was "unemployed and pregnant and struggling to decide whether she could be able to keep her baby or have to give him up for adoption" according to reporter Andrea Castillo of the Portland Oregonian. While browsing at a Portland consignment Shop, Just Between Friends, she met Brooke Unwin, the shop's co-owner (on the right with co-owner Tammy Boren-King). Unwin told a friend about Daniel's plight and the friend donated $200 to Daniel with a note: "God wants you to have this." That gave her hope, Daniel said, and with the money, was able to to buy everything she needed for her child from the shop, which specializes in children's and maternity clothes.
Friday, September 14, 2012
When an agency promises 'semi-open' adoption, look elsewhere
Lorraine |
Just about everything.
As a birth mother, you are at the mercy not only of the agency, and its commitment to keeping the adoption semi-closed--let's be frank, that's what it is--but also at the mercy of the adoptive parents to keep up contact. If they do not want to, birth/first parents have no recourse through the legal system in most states to keep the information channels open. Whenever we write about this travesty, we get more comments from first mothers who were lied to by adopters, and whose contact with them ended without warning.
Monday, September 10, 2012
'Parent' as a verb is beyond irritating
Jane |
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The Continuing Adventures of Being Out as a Birth Mother
Lorraine, not quite incognito |
I say, Oh really, where, when?
He says, At a party like this. When you wrote a book about adoption...are you still involved in that?
Well of course my ears prick up like a horse on high alert and I say, Oh. Yes, I am still involved in that, but how is it that you remember me?
We adopted a daughter thirty-five years ago.
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