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Category: A Birthmothers Life
- Adoption Poetry: “Fallen Angel”
- Societies Attitude when Birth Control Fails
- A Typical “Open” Adoption
- Spouse of A Birthmother Asks: How Do I Tell My Children?
- Kitten Adoption Can be Very Triggering
- Live from Orlando…I’m on Vacation!
- Born Baby Wagner, Died Alyssa Rachael Toner
- Life Wins Out Over Adoption
- A Relinquishing Mother’s Voice
- The Myth of the Happy Adoptee
- 15 Solutions To Fix Adoption in America
- Sorry, I’m Not Going to Be Convinced & I’m Not Changing My Mind
- This is Adoption Happily Ever After
- Blog for Choice 2013 Lame Style
- Deep Sadness, an Illness of Body and Spirits
- Sandy Musser is Back in Action and Asking for Your Help
- About Adoptee Rights: An Open Letter to the News Media
- Missouri Adoption Legislation HB 252: Letters Needed Stat
- Collecting the Adoptees and Families Searching Images on Facebook
- Adoptee Rights Bills to Support in 2013
- Why Are Adoptees Reduced to Begging for Help?
- A Slight Move Forward by New York State for Adoptees
- Voter ID’s & Voter Fraud in the State of Adoption
- Adoptionland: What We Give, What We Get
- Adoptee Rights Coalition: Adoption Infographic-The United States of DENIED Adopted Citizens
- Reflections on the 2012 Adoptee Rights Demonstration in Chicago
- Chicago 2012: 16 Hours and a Tornado Producing Storm
- Why We Fight For Adoptee Rights
- Free Adoption Records: Open the Secrets in New York – part 3
- Free Adoption Records: Open the Secrets in New York part 2
- Adoption and the Use of Illegal Substances
- A Typical “Open” Adoption
- Spouse of A Birthmother Asks: How Do I Tell My Children?
- Genesee Valley Monthly Search Group
- Hudson Valley Adoption Support Group Monthly Meetings
- RIARG: RI Adoptees Resource Group Monthly Meetings
- Irresponsible Whores or Strong Family Building Angels
- Inside Out Adoption Healing in San Diego California
- A Day of Healing at Inside Out Adoption
- All Wrong: Defense of Marriage Act and Adoption Don’t Belong Together
- Radical Leadership for Radical Change
- Sandy Musser is Back in Action and Asking for Your Help
- Inside Out Adoption Healing Seminar NYC
- Relationship Tests to Unite Relatives
- Born Baby Wagner, Died Alyssa Rachael Toner
- Genesee Valley Monthly Search Group
- Hudson Valley Adoption Support Group Monthly Meetings
- RIARG: RI Adoptees Resource Group Monthly Meetings
- Inside Out Adoption Healing in San Diego California
- Inside Out Adoption Healing Seminar NYC
- 27th Annual ARC Summer Intensives Adoption Conference & Training
- Inside Out Adoption Healing Seminar CA
- PACT: Third Annual Collaborative Conference for Birthparents, Adoptive Parents, Adoptees, Siblings, Extended Family and Advocates
- Richard Hill – “Finding Family with DNA Testing” & Book Signing
- DEADLINE AHEAD! AAC’s Create the Next Wave Art Show Submissions
- Chloe + Isabel by Suz Fundraiser to Help Mothers
- Adoption’s Birthmother Submissions Wanted – Dec 2012
- Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association Spring Conference 2013
- Children’s Mental Health Research and Policy Conference 2013
- Mary Gauthier at The Rosendale Cafe NY
- Sorry, I’m Not Going to Be Convinced & I’m Not Changing My Mind
- Go Be Happy About Adoption, But Don’t Call Me a Bitter Birthmother
- Secondary Adoptee Rejection in Adoption Reunions
- Why Adoption Kool-Aid Tastes so Good!
- A Parcel of the Past: Remembering Relinquishment
- Back From Touring Egypt
- “Anger is more useful than despair.”
- Unformed Thoughts About Denying My Motherhood
- Core Style: The Power of Genetics in Adoption Reunions
- No More Sarahs
- All Wrong: Defense of Marriage Act and Adoption Don’t Belong Together
- Radical Leadership for Radical Change
- Sandy Musser is Back in Action and Asking for Your Help
- Two Adoption Agencies Closed Down Last Week!
- A Blow to International Adoption; Russian Children and Babies Banned from United States Adoptions
- Get Ready.. it’s Time for National Adoption Awareness Month
- What’s Wrong With the Adoption Tax Credit?
- Adoption Services Associates Goes Bad, Abrazo Adoption Associates Does Good
- Never Imagined This
- Interviewing with Dan Rather Reports
- Australia’s Adoption Apology
- Lessons in International Adoption
- Adoptees and Sisters Reality Show Casting Call
- A Gift for the Adoption Community!
- The Truth of Annette Baran
- Spouse of A Birthmother Asks: How Do I Tell My Children?
- The Good in the Negative
- Complicated Grief and Complicated Birthmother Diagnosis
- Hard Truths; A Birthmother is Abandoning Her Child
- Does Voluntary Adoption Relinquishment Save Children from Abuse?
- Secondary Adoptee Rejection in Adoption Reunions
- When a Birthmother Closes an Open Adoption
- Can We Understand why Mothers Relinquish Babies to Adoption?
- The Risk of Genetic Sexual Attraction for Adoptees and Birth Parents in Reunions
- An Adoptee Asks Reunion Question
- How do People Search and Find Adoption Information Online
- Fun on CafeMom When Infertile People Want Another Woman’s Twins
- Adoption as a Risk Factor for Attempted Suicide During Adolescence
- Suicidal Thoughts in Adopted Versus Non-Adopted Youth
- Adoption Relinquishments by the Numbers
- Biological Mother’s Grief: The Post Adoptive Experience in Open Versus Confidential Adoption
- The Free-Market Approach to Adoption: The Value of a Baby
- The Culture of Poverty and Adoption: Adoptive Parent Views of Birth Families
- Birth Parents in Adoption: Research, Practice, and Counseling Psychology
- International Asian Adoption: In the Best Interest of the Child?
- Known Consequences of Separating Mother and Child at Birth Implications for Further Study
- Ongoing Adoption Reunions
- Parens Patri[Archy]: Adoption, Eugenics, and Same-Sex Couples
- ADOPTION AND AGENCY: American Adoptions of Marshallese Children
- Addressing the Psycho-Social Implications in Social Policy: The Case of Adoption and Early Intervention Strategies
- 1800 PARENT AND CHILD
- Adoption Laws and Practices in 2000: Serving Whose Interests?
- Adoption and the Use of Illegal Substances
- Re-Marketing Adoption
- Spouse of A Birthmother Asks: How Do I Tell My Children?
- Irresponsible Whores or Strong Family Building Angels
- About Adoptee Rights: An Open Letter to the News Media
- Two Adoption Agencies Closed Down Last Week!
- What We Can Learn from Real Life Juno XO
- Infertility Does NOT Give You the Right to Adopt!
- Adoption as a Risk Factor for Attempted Suicide During Adolescence
- Suicidal Thoughts in Adopted Versus Non-Adopted Youth
- Adoption Relinquishments by the Numbers
- Biological Mother’s Grief: The Post Adoptive Experience in Open Versus Confidential Adoption
- The Free-Market Approach to Adoption: The Value of a Baby
- Adoption Policy Decisions 2013: Who is Leading? Who is Stuck Behind?
- Surrogacy, Donor Eggs, and Legal Battles, Oh My!
- The Myth of the Happy Adoptee
- 15 Ways to Be Vulnerable to Adoption Agencies
- Hard Truths; A Birthmother is Abandoning Her Child
- Good Mothers Don’t Even Think About Adoption!
- Can We Understand why Mothers Relinquish Babies to Adoption?
- Support and Advice for Amelia’s Mom
- Somebodies Mother
- The Stereotype Meme: Birthmother Style
- Is Your Adoption Agency Ethical?
- Breaking the Birthmother Rules
- READ THIS: Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Was Adopted
- 29 Things I Wish I Knew Before Adoption Entered my Life
- Fun on CafeMom When Infertile People Want Another Woman’s Twins
- The National Council for Adoption:
- Looking for that Magic Key!
- Spouse of A Birthmother Asks: How Do I Tell My Children?
- Kitten Adoption Can be Very Triggering
- The Weight of Adoption Baggage
- Complicated Grief and Complicated Birthmother Diagnosis
- When a Birthmother Closes an Open Adoption
- National Tragedies, Silent Tragedies
- Oh No, Please Don’t Go! We Lose Maurice Sendak
- Adoption Facts Demand Infant Adoption Reformation
- A Good Birthmom
- Related by Birth: An Adoption Documentary
- Adoption Poetry: Edit the Cure
- Learning to Ride the Waves: Birthmother Grief
- Just Put Out the F-ing Garbage!
- Uterus Humerus
- Oprah Asks About Infant Loss for O Magazine
- Adoption Poetry: “Fallen Angel”
- Searching For Birthmothers on Huffington Post Live & AOL
- It’s a Birthmother Halloween
- Father’s Day and Paternal Abandonment
- Adoption: Broken Ornaments
- When a Signature Changes Your Life: Relinquishment
- Adoption and Halloween
- Finding Normal; Visits with Adopted Siblings
- Screw Birthmother’s Day! I am Officially Rebeling!
- Talking to Myself
- Mother’s Day: Still a Disappointment
- Adoption, Relinquishment, Informed Consent, Abortion, 911, and Insurance: How to Fix Adoption??
- November: A BirthMothers Season of Loss
- Adoption is NOT a State of Mind!!
- Evil mood: A Case of Birthmother Blues
- Kitten Adoption Can be Very Triggering
- 15 Solutions To Fix Adoption in America
- This is Adoption Happily Ever After
- Pain from the Past, Feeling the Presence
- Letters from Boston, Notes to the Past
- Letters From My Pregnant Self – Pre Adoption
- The Good in the Negative
- Thinking About Adoption Affects on the “Kept” Child
- What Preplacement Adoption Counseling Should Look Like
- I Own It; Making Mistakes, Accepting Responsibility and Regret
- Nature Verses Nurture and Family Connections
- Adoption Speech:”Mothers Without Their Children”
- The Choice in Adoption: Innocence, Idiotic, Irrevocable
- Breaking the Birthmother Rules
- Who Wants to Be a Birthmother?
- Adoption and the Use of Illegal Substances
- A Typical “Open” Adoption
- A Day of Healing at Inside Out Adoption
- Radical Leadership for Radical Change
- Relationship Tests to Unite Relatives
- A Relinquishing Mother’s Voice
- Missouri Adoption Legislation HB 252: Letters Needed Stat
- Collecting the Adoptees and Families Searching Images on Facebook
- What We Can Learn from Real Life Juno XO
- Reunion Opened My Eyes to the Horrors of Adoption
- Adoption Policy Decisions 2013: Who is Leading? Who is Stuck Behind?
- The Adoption Army Battles Catholic Charities
- THIS is How We Change the World’s View of Adoption
- Best of Open Adoption Blogs 2012
- Chloe + Isabel by Suz Fundraiser to Help Mothers
- Adoption and the Use of Illegal Substances
- Irresponsible Whores or Strong Family Building Angels
- About Adoptee Rights: An Open Letter to the News Media
- What We Can Learn from Real Life Juno XO
- Infertility Does NOT Give You the Right to Adopt!
- Surrogacy, Donor Eggs, and Legal Battles, Oh My!
- Birthmother’s Cake: What People Really Think About the Act of Selfless Love Called Adoption
- Craigslist: You Can’t Sell Your Baby, But You Can Advertise FOR a Baby
- Searching For Birthmothers on Huffington Post Live & AOL
- I Own It; Making Mistakes, Accepting Responsibility and Regret
- Good Mothers Don’t Even Think About Adoption!
- It’s NOT About Vaginas
- Get Ready.. it’s Time for National Adoption Awareness Month
- “Ripped Away From the ONLY Home the Child Has EVER Known”
- Conversations with the “Other Side”
- Adoption and the Use of Illegal Substances
- A Typical “Open” Adoption
- Radical Leadership for Radical Change
- Relationship Tests to Unite Relatives
- A Relinquishing Mother’s Voice
- Reunion Opened My Eyes to the Horrors of Adoption
- The Reality of Adoption 2012;
- A Day of Healing at Inside Out Adoption
- All Wrong: Defense of Marriage Act and Adoption Don’t Belong Together
- Review of Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
- Infertility Does NOT Give You the Right to Adopt!
- Blog for Choice 2013 Lame Style
- The Fifth and Final Name by Rhonda Noonan
- Dental Care for the 99%
- Buring Down a House, Losing a Soul
- Finding My Andy Warhol
- Sara Lee and the Evil Poundcake
- JP Morgan Chase Bank is a Bad Pimp Daddy!
- In the Dollhouse; A Message from my Mother
- A Best Buy Customer Service Story
- Broke Arm Recovery
- Broken Humerus Update: Surgical Repaired
- Spouse of A Birthmother Asks: How Do I Tell My Children?
- Irresponsible Whores or Strong Family Building Angels
- Infertility Does NOT Give You the Right to Adopt!
- The Myth of the Happy Adoptee
- Adoption Relinquishments by the Numbers
- Sorry, I’m Not Going to Be Convinced & I’m Not Changing My Mind
- This is Adoption Happily Ever After
- Deep Sadness, an Illness of Body and Spirits
- Pain from the Past, Feeling the Presence
- Letters from Boston, Notes to the Past
- Letters From My Pregnant Self – Pre Adoption
- Birthmother’s Cake: What People Really Think About the Act of Selfless Love Called Adoption
- 15 Ways to Be Vulnerable to Adoption Agencies
- The Reality of Adoption 2012;
- Closing Out National Adoption Awareness Month
- RIARG: RI Adoptees Resource Group Monthly Meetings
- Relationship Tests to Unite Relatives
- Searching For Birthmothers on Huffington Post Live & AOL
- Thinking About Adoption Affects on the “Kept” Child
- Secondary Adoptee Rejection in Adoption Reunions
- The Risk of Genetic Sexual Attraction for Adoptees and Birth Parents in Reunions
- Ongoing Adoption Reunions
- An Adoptee Asks Reunion Question
- Protecting the Privacy of Birthmothers
- Breaking the Birthmother Rules
- Finding Normal; Visits with Adopted Siblings
- Screw Birthmother’s Day! I am Officially Rebeling!
- Oprah Winfrey Joins the Adoption Community
- Birthmother In Jail: Genetic Sexual Attraction to Blame
- All is Right in My Adoptionland
- RIARG: RI Adoptees Resource Group Monthly Meetings
- Relationship Tests to Unite Relatives
- Born Baby Wagner, Died Alyssa Rachael Toner
- Collecting the Adoptees and Families Searching Images on Facebook
- Review of Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
- Why Are Adoptees Reduced to Begging for Help?
- In Search of a January 1970 Florida Born Female Adoptee
- Searching For Birthmothers on Huffington Post Live & AOL
- The Fifth and Final Name by Rhonda Noonan
- Secondary Adoptee Rejection in Adoption Reunions
- Facebook Father Son Fail
- Re-Marketing Adoption
- Two Adoption Agencies Closed Down Last Week!
- Adoption Relinquishments by the Numbers
- Adoption Policy Decisions 2013: Who is Leading? Who is Stuck Behind?
- A Blow to International Adoption; Russian Children and Babies Banned from United States Adoptions
- 15 Ways to Be Vulnerable to Adoption Agencies
- Craigslist: You Can’t Sell Your Baby, But You Can Advertise FOR a Baby
- What Preplacement Adoption Counseling Should Look Like
- Re-Marketing Adoption
- BraveLove.Org – Another Front for Adoption Profits
- Crisis Pregnancy Centers Funneling Adoption Misinformation
- Can We Understand why Mothers Relinquish Babies to Adoption?
- Angels of Love Adoption Agency and a Relinquishment Under Question
- Adoption Speech:”Mothers Without Their Children”
- Adoption Laws and Practices in 2000: Serving Whose Interests?
- Collecting the Adoptees and Families Searching Images on Facebook
- A Blow to International Adoption; Russian Children and Babies Banned from United States Adoptions
- Craigslist Adoption Truth Project Update!
- Secondary Adoptee Rejection in Adoption Reunions
- Angels of Love Adoption Agency and a Relinquishment Under Question
- The Adoption Lists: Was It My Destiny to Become a Birthmother?
- Why We Fight For Adoptee Rights
- The Adoption Lists: Oxygen’s I’m Having Their Baby
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