There is an age-old adage that two wrongs don’t make a right. Of course, us mothers of adoption loss understand the level of desperation that Allison Lee Quets must have been experiencing when she failed to return her 17 month old twins to their adoptive parents. And while we can support preservation of the natural family and encourages families to parent their own offspring, even to legally fight to regain…
The Massachusettes Open records bill has become a complete travisty of justice and the ideas of which it was created. It wouldn;t be so bad that the dern thing seemed to have no movement after the hearings etc, excpet that now it is ready to be law. Senate bill 2690 amended version of 959: INSTATRAC BILL SUMMARY SB-2690 of 2005-2006 By the Senate Committee on Ways and Means: Directs the…
I hate this story. I hate that it is even still going on. This poor young dad, his poor family, and the poor baby. WTF are these people thinking?? Lots of speculation if you have been following the story. I can use my secret spider sense to tell you what I think went on. Boy and girl find out they are PG and plan to keep baby. Dad works on…
I don’t speak much about my own father. I haven’t seen him in 20 years, haven’t spoken to him in almost 13. I pretty much consider myself an orphan. My mom is passed..and my father…just out there..somewhere. He wasn’t the greatest. He had issues, of which I will probably never completely understand. My parents marrige was like oil and water…very odd dynamics with me, an only child, somewhere in the…
I wish I was like a cat and could purrrrr. I would if I could. I feel very content at this moment in time. Totally deconstructed Christmas we have here. Very mellow, just opening presents, muching on good food. No one really gets out of PJs. The kids, this year, are also rather mellow, just playing away…even rather quietly, amused they are, by the bounty that is Santa. My children…
Saw this bullitan on my space… MTV True Life Presents… I’m Looking for My Birth Parent email us at: adoptee@mtvstaff.com with the details Were you adopted and are now ready to find your birth parent/s? Have you already located your birth parent and are about to meet for the first time? Or has a birth parent recently located you and requested a meeting? If you are interested in sharing your…
Yesterday all the Buzz in adoptinland was about PizzaHut UK’s horrible ad compaign “Adopt a Cheesy Bite”. If you missed all the hoopala, some insensitive wing nut at Weiden and Kennedy thought it would be great based on “With all the comment in the news at the moment about issues surrounding adoption, we thought it was an issue we could tap into. Possibly in questionable taste. Also funny.” Ummm..definatly questionable,…
I wrote this out this morning: Judith Ashton, Executive Director NYS Citizens’ Coalition for Children, Inc. 410 East Upland Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-272-0034 Fax: 607-272-0035 jashton@nysccc. org http://www.nysccc. Org Ms. Ashton, Upon reading your note**** to Heather Kuhn regarding her article “New York is Ready to Change Its Adoption Laws”, as it was forwarded to OriginsUSA, I became curious as to what the New York State Citizen’s Coalition for…
Newsy bits and all… Sad story playing out now in adoption legal land between Georiga and Florida. High school kids get PG and mom places baby. Dad and dad’s family have no intention of consenting to the relinquishment, but….baby is already gone!! Off to Florida. Seems dad did fill out all paperwork as needed by Georgia to claim the child 5 days after birth ( he has 30) but the…
It’s really funny, but when I meet someone for the first time..and if I don’t really like them at all, like if I think to my self “Oh, I just don’t like her’..it usually turns out that that person becomes one of the people I love most in this world. Maybe I see something so close to who I am , that I relate too much, but it is odd,…
I wrote this for Marsha. I like Marsha. She’s a mod over at SoA, an interfamily adoptee heself (sent her ribbons for her and her mom), has a daughter from China and is waiting for her older son from there too. She gets it and I find myself agreeing with things she says. She is into educating other China AP’s about China moms being real and having feelings like us…
The STORK MARKET: America’s Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry by Mirah Riben Foreword by Evelyn Robinson Projected Release Date: Feb 15, 2007 ORDER :http://www.AdocateP ublications. com/ <http://www.AdocateP ublications. com/> Stork mar·ket. (stôrk märkt) n. 1. an in-depth exposé of the corruption in the adoption industry; the fine line between black and gray market adoption; scams, coercion and exploitation. 2. an in-depth report on the international market where children are the…
One of the things that has always bothered me greatly is that I have NO paperwork from when I relinquished Max. I kept tons of stuff. I kept everything really. I have my original brochure from the agency, I have my plane ticket, I have the bottle that Max drank from, I have pictures, I have all the letters Laura and Darrin sent me. I have clothes that Max spit…
I am sorry, but I have had to do something that I have made a personal priority never to do..which is moderate my comments and close comment privilages to non members. And let me tell you this REALLY SUCKS! I hate it, I really do. I have never done so from my own “poke at stick” trolls and anonymous hit and run folks. I have never had to do so…
I am recovering from a nasty bout of strep throat. We were all infected. I was sick all weekend. I even called out of work Saturday night, which I would never do. Especially after a lousy week and a freaky friday, but I was not in the position to loose eye contact with my bathroom. Friday night the crazy storm sewept though Rhinebeck with the force of a freight train….