"When I fully came out of the fog, as it’s called in adoptee-world, I was in my forties. I had never known a grief so deep. By many people’s standards, I had the world by the tail and was successful at most everything I did. At the same time, there I was on my side curled up into a ball blubbering to God with snot running down my face, begging him to take me out of this world."
Dear Adoption, Tell My Mom Merry Christmas Read More...
I miss them a lot - I'd do anything to get them back. They are baby snatchers! Reported by CNN...Read More
I was stunned to wake up and hear the one-sided, tired, age old perspective that we’ve heard so many times before. A loving, Caucasian adoptive parent of three African American children was the only voice to hear. Read More...
Strickland alleges Demke, the adoptive parents and the adoption agency conspired in an "illegal, deceit-ridden infant adoption" that deprived him of his son, according to the suit. Read More...
The controversy stems from a 2011 decision by the South Carolina Supreme Court concerning the parental rights of a 2-year-old child – dubbed Baby Veronica. Read More...
The adoptive parents and birth father of a girl known as "Baby Veronica" have fought for custody of her since shortly after she was born in 2009. Read More...
“They came in and they took her away,” Lebrun told TODAY.com, recalling the day after giving birth. “I remember looking around the room thinking, what am I going to do now? Where is my life going?” Read More...
I had a very happy childhood; being an only child for eight years, I was
the center of everyone’s universe. Exactly what a kid wants, right?
But, despite this, I always felt oddly different. When I was about
5-years-old, one of my older cousins made a comment that still stands
out in my mind: “You know your parents can take you back if you are bad,
right? Read More...
How does this differ from in vitro fertilization (IVF)? We are not
creating humans. Fertilization is not part of an adoption story because
adoption is by definition the taking into one’s family children who
already exist. Fertilization, by contrast, is the creation of a human being. But adoption stories are not about creating new life. They are about adopting humans who are already here. Read More...
"It's a civil rights issue and it's appalling to me we treat people this
poorly," Allen said. "We have made them a separate class, an inferior
class, because they were adopted. How absurd is that?" Read More...
From AAC - a video on why adopted adults need to know the truth about their origins
It is understandable to hold the “professionals” who gave such erroneous information at least partly responsible
Read More…Section 1. The right of adopted citizens of the United States, who are
18 years of age or older, to possess their original birth certificates,
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state.
The examples are subtly coercive. Many people don't use them with the intent to coerce mothers. They are simply coercive by nature and are therefore unacceptable.
More than 10 years and thousands of dollars trying to solve the most personal of mysteries...
