The Adoptee, a Perpetual Child
Why it’s considered socially acceptable to permanently seal people’s original birth certificates from them and treat them like perpetual children!
Articles by Kate Dahlquist
Separation Nation
With 18 million people affected by adoption., 1.7 million families affected by military deployment, 26% of kids raised with a sole caregiver, 500,000 kids in foster care, 2,500,000 families affected by incarceration, 200,000 families affect by deportations.. yet togetherness is an American Family Value?
National Adoption Awareness Month: Focus on Foster Kids
Please don’t allow the original purpose of “National Adoption Month” be upstaged by the people who profit from the sale of children. Approximately 100,000 kids who can’t return home need some one who really cares about what happens to them
The Birth Father’s Rights In Adoption
A father shouldn’t have to fight strangers in curt for the right to parent his own child.The adoption “industry” has become expert at circumventing a father’s right to parent his own child.
Costs of Adoption: Increased Secondary Infertility Rates Infographic
According to multiple studies, women who relinquish a child to adoption are forty to sixty percent more likely to experience secondary infertility that other mothers. Adoption agencies, facilitators, and counselors are not requires to disclose this information to expectant mothers considering adoption – so of course, they don’t. Does that sound like helping people make INFORMED decisions to YOU?
There are No Contracts in Adoption
Actually the word “contract” is not used in adoption legalese due to the nature of who can sign it. See, minors are not allowed to enter a contract under contract law. And since many times women under the age of 18 are encouraged to relinquish their babies to adoption, an “adoption contract” would just not do. So adoption relinquishment consent form is just that; an: adoption relinquishment consent form.
A Child is Not a “Thing”
Children are NOT ‘things’. They are not accessories, dolls, products, property, chattel, toys, trophies, prizes, pawns, pets, robots, weapons, experiments, or gifts
Not Anti Adoption
I don’t have a problem with the IDEA of adoption. I am not ‘anti-adoption’ What I have a problem with, is what adoption has BECOME. And what it has done to people.This isn’t how it should be.