Tis and Tat

December 13, 2006

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 wanna be parents are NOT giving back the baby. Enter laywers..there are about 5 now.
Good discussion with copy of news articles and laws and case history including a HUG list of who submitted what to the courts is here

How many ways can we say unethical and trambling a father’s rights?

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Ann Fessler’s “The Girls Who Went Away” makes it to Michael Pollan’s “Best of 2006” Amazon List. WHoo hoo!!! Yeah, for Ann! Yeah, for us!! Yeah for Michael Pollan whoever he is! It needs some reviews!!!

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Sherry F. Colb has written a little ditty in response to the Evan B Donaldson paper on parental rights in adoption. While she might be a law professor and have interest in reproductive rights as judging by the list of articles she has written, she only imagines what the views are of the different parts of the “triad”. Funny, though, she ends up with a plea for the AP’s pulling on the symapthy strings: “Allowing birth mothers to extract concessions from us because we are so desperate to become parents can hardly be described as in the best interests of the baby.”..umm can we say NOT unbaised? An Offical Bleh.

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For anyone who can, mark your calenders please, Unsealed Initiative will be begiining Lobby season on February 6th in Albany NY. Contact Unsealed Initiative to get in on th lobby goodness.

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Hey lookie! I have broken 30,000 visits on my sitemeter!!

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Our Adoption Rollar Coaster Carnival has gotten a great boost of assistace! MagicPointeShoes has been scouring Blogland and finding great posts for submissions. Ohh..millions of thanks and kudos!
Follow the lead guys! If you see a great post..submit it to the Carnival. It doesn’t have to be your own.

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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.

3 Comments on "Tis and Tat"

  1. magicpointeshoe | December 13, 2006 at 1:49 pm |

    Sherry F. Colb is TACKY! Oh my. Thankfully there were no discussions on the discussion board about that article. Amazing how the interpretation of an adopted baby has the voice of closed adoption experience. =oP

    Once I remembered there was a carnival, I had some fun last night finding all those great posts I’ve read.

  2. magicpointeshoe | December 13, 2006 at 3:16 pm |

    Oh no. I was searching the blogs at myspace and there was an ad. http://www.courageous choice.com/

    I am so sad and angry at this website. I know it helps nothing but I need to find the web tool for having a dog walk across the page and poop on it.

  3. magicpointeshoe | December 13, 2006 at 3:45 pm |

    Never mind, old meme. N wrote about that crappy site a while ago.

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