Lorraine and Jane at Rockefeller Center, 1982 |
Where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news & opinions. And vent.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
'X' instead of a name on a birth certificate is just plain wrong
Friday, September 16, 2016
ACLU: Right on Kaepernick, wrong on adoptee and first mother rights
Lorraine |
The ACLU National support 49ers quarterback Kaepernick's kneel-down during the singing of the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality, but they also support injustice against adoptees. They say they do this for those birth/first mothers who wish to remain secret from their children. Baloney. If that is their argument for being such a stand-up partner to adoptee injustice, they are ignoring what they actually support.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
DNA reveals a mother who rejected contact. Maybe.
Lorraine |
"Through DNA I have a close 2nd cousin match and with help from a search angel, I found my first mother. I have a younger brother from her. My problem is she said no contact when the Children's Home Society in Florida found her back in 2007. At that point I learned that she had not disclosed my existence to her family, but now with the DNA tests results and my tree on ancestry I won't be a secret any more for long.
"Trying to figure out what to do next--should I try to contact her again through a direct letter to her, with a few pictures? We look a lot a like.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
The Light Between Oceans: Bloated melodrama defies your sympathy
The book, the movie poster |
Since I found the story of The Place Beyond the Pines, one of the director Derek Cianfrance's earlier films, devastating and compelling from the first frame, I expected the same. After that story of a child the father did not know his short-term girlfriend had, and its the tragic end, I was an emotional mess. I know too many stories about guys who don't know they left behind a child.
So I was set up to like this movie. I excepted my own personal waterworks.
Yet I didn't even need the tissues. The story is way too preposterous, the filming veers to high melodrama, the moral question at the heart of the story
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Catelynn and Tyler face the hard realities of adoption--again
Birth mother Catelynn Lowell Baltierra |
On the latest episode, Teresa tells Catelynn in a telephone call that she does not want their
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