[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

Lorraine testifying in 2015 I am so f&^cking angry and upset. This is not a regular blog post but instead I want to tell you why I ...

Back to Find My Family because the show has certainly struck a nerve with lots of grumbling that it doesn't give adoptive parents the ...

Yet another proof that everyone should be able to have full and complete access to their real medical histories comes from a story out of N...

National Institutes of Health Supports Open Records for Adoptees!   Well, not exactly. According to Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH Director a...

The good news from South Dakota--that they passed an open-records bill with a contact preference--NOT VETO--is tempered somewhat. Apparently...

This is the last of a series of emails between me and my surrendered daughter Megan about open records. The first two parts were posted Mond...

My surrendered daughter Megan and I reunited in November, 1997 just after she turned 31. Although we have much in common and get along when ...

Happy New Year to Maine, Come January 1st, which will become the sixth state to have open records! Without the damn disclosure veto ! Maine ...

Lorraine Joyce Bahr of Unsealed Initiative , the force behind New York State Adoption Reform recently posted this on their blog, and so ...

My surrendered daughter Megan, a Mormon, searched for me for over 10 years, finally locating me in late 1997. Shortly after we reunited, she...

When I told Rebecca, my surrendered daughter who is a Mormon, that her Church opposed legislation allowing adult adoptees to obtain their or...