Birth Mothers; Have you Lived a Horror Story?

Birth Mother Experiences in Adoption Relinquishment; Journalist Inquiry

I have been speaking at length this past week with a very well established journalist how is looking into the experiences of mothers relinquishing their newborns to adoption through voluntary domestic placement. Based on the conversations, I am confident that this request for specific stories and experiences is not only very legitimate, but will result in a very informative piece on ethics. This author is specifically looking into the role that first family finance’s, or lack there of, contribute to acts of coercion in domestic infant adoption placements.

Have You Had the Unfortunate Experience of Dealing with one of AdoptionLand Infamous “Bad Apples”?

Seeking Birth mothers (and fathers) willing to share your experience with this vetted journalist. If you are comfortable sharing your experience, please take the time to fill out the simple form below. All replies will be kept completely confidential and nothing will be published without your express approval.

Birth Mother Inquiry 2020

  • Whatever you are most comfortable with.
  • Was it an Adoption Agency, Facilitator, Consultant or Attorney? Please share who guided your relinquishment and and what state was this in?
  • Placements that have happened in the past ten years are preferred (to negate the "but adoption is different now"), but older stories can help cement that, in reality and practice, little has changed.
  • Please provide a brief description of your experience including how you found the agency, how you were treated during the pregnancy/relinquishment process, etc.
  • This information will be provided to the journalist. Please provide the best email to use for any follow up questions.
  • If you prefer and /or are comfortable with sharing, please provide a number for follow up.

About the Author

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Musings of the Lame was started in 2005 primarily as a simple blog recording the feelings of a birthmother as she struggled to understand how the act of relinquishing her first newborn so to adoption in 1987 continued to be a major force in her life. Built from the knowledge gained in the adoption community, it records the search for her son and the adoption reunion as it happened. Since then, it has grown as an adoption forum encompassing the complexity of the adoption industry, the fight to free her sons adoption records and the need for Adoptee Rights, and a growing community of other birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted persons who are able to see that so much what we want to believe about adoption is wrong.

1 Comment on "Birth Mothers; Have you Lived a Horror Story?"

  1. Melanie Hudson | August 7, 2020 at 6:01 pm |

    Forced adoptions here.From my own home.My girls always have a home here.

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