[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

Megan and Jane at the old Courthouse in Bloomington, Ill 2018 For adoptees in closed adoptions like my daughter Megan, life is a puzz...

About to be swallowed up by the deep                              photo by Ken Robbins “But we’ll be able to—find each other when he’s ...

Lorraine and Jane at Rockefeller Center, 1982 A few days ago I read a story about Missouri adoptees born before 1941 being able to actu...

Lorraine "We support Colin Kaepernick and every other American who has defended an unpopular opinion." So tweets ACLU Nationa...

A Simple Piece of ORIGINAL Paper denied the adopted Try as we might, clean bills with first birth parent vetoes are what states are tak...

My original birth certificate--everyone should have the same As the legislative session wound down in New York, the Assembly passed a b...

Lorraine  Nearly three decades ago, an infertile couple who wanted to adopt wrote up a resume about themselves and sent it to several ...

Lorraine People today talk about the internet as a powerful tool in getting around sealed birth certificates and make it sound as if ...

My letter to the Speaker of the New York Assembly:                         Box 968                       Sag Harbor, NY 11963 Sheldon S...

 Joyce Bahr, President of  Unsealed Initiative which works to open the records in New York State had the follo...