One of the things we did at the conference…

Was film this. you know the drill!

Now for a public service announcement form Origins-USA!

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National Adoption BEWAREness Month

Origins-USA, a national non-profit dedicated natural family preservation and support of families separated by adoption commemorates November as National Adoption BEWARE-ness month.

November became National Adoption Awareness Month in 1990 to focus on the needs of more than 100,000 in foster care who cannot be reunited with family and who might benefit from adoption. Unfortunately, the needs of the very children adoption was intended to serve are all to often overshadowed by those procuring infants to meet a demand.

Infant adoption is an often corrupt, multi-billion industry that needs caution and restriction, not promotion or encouragement.

Origins-USA urges all concerned about child welfare and family health and stability to BEWARE and BE AWARE:

* Globally, 80% of children in orphanages have family.
* Poverty – not abuse, abandonment or neglect – is the major cause of family disintegration.
* Child trafficking in adoption is a huge concern globally, causing more than a dozen countries to halt adoption temporarily or permanently.
* Origins-USA supports UNICEF position that “adoption should always be a last resort” and that every child has the right to know and to be cared for by his or her own parents, whenever possible.
* Supporting adoption, more often than not supports racketeers and baby brokers – fueled by demand – who steal and kidnapped babies and sell them to “orphanages.”
* There is currently no way to distinguish reputable adoption agencies from unscrupulous, untrained, unlicensed adoption practitioners who scam and exploit all parties to adoption
* Adoption is not a “win-win” nor does it guarantee a “better life” – just a different one
* Adoption leaves children and their families with lifelong, irresolvable issues of loss
* In all but four states, those adopted are denied equal access to their own birth certificate and have access only to a falsified certificate.

Origins-USA encourages adoption BEWAREness in separating the reality of adoption from the hype of those of profit from family disintegration and the redistribution of children. We urge instead more emphasis on humanitarian efforts of family preservation.

On November 30th, Origins-USA commemorates the culmination of National Adoption BEWAREness month, with “Strange and Mournful” Loss Day.

CONTACT: Mirah Riben, PR@Origins-USA.com
www.Origins-USA.com

FOR CONTACT ONLY: 732-329-3769

About the Author

Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding. She is also an activist and avid supporter of Adoptee Rights and fights for nationwide birth certificate access for all adoptees with the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Besides here on Musings of the Lame, her writings on adoption issue have been published in The New York Times, BlogHer, Divine Caroline, Adoption Today Magazine, Adoption Constellation Magazine, Adopt-a-tude.com, Lost Mothers, Grown in my Heart, Adoption Voice Magazine, and many others. She has been interviewed by Dan Rather, Montel Williams and appeared on Huffington Post regarding adoption as well as presented at various adoption conferences, other radio and print interviews over the years. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, Rye, children, and various pets.

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