Preparing for Reunion Sources: Ideas anyone?

So, I was contacted by a blog to write my relinquish /search / find/ reunite story for them. The hug challenge was that I had to do the whole thing in one post length and I do not do “brief” very well, as we all know. But, I nailed it down… it’s like the readers digest condensed version. And it’s up, it’s cool. It’s got a link back to here.

#1) They are looking for more stories, so if anyone is interested, it’s pretty easy to submit, etc.

#2) While quickly realized that the blog is more or less for attracting people to sell DNA testing, It also will have a good chance of getting traffic via search engines from people looking for information in finding folks and DNA testing, so I suggested to the author that they should really do moire than have just heart warming stories that inspires people to find lost relatives, she should also have resources for to prepare for reunion.. coz lord knows, even if it’s good.. it still makes you feel weird and overly emotional and kind of insane of times.

Thankfully, she is very open to that.. so since I was MIA for some time, if there are any new good reunion prep sites, or posts, or whathaveyou.. please pass them on. I just hate the thought of people going into renions thinking Hallmark moments and getting blindsided.

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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 "Preparing for Reunion Sources: Ideas anyone?"

  1. Here are a number of books published by The British Association for Adoption and Fostering, including these by Julia Feast:
    http://www.baaf.org.uk/res/pubs/books/
    authors/feast_julia.shtml

    I haven’t read any, but I imagine they would be helpful, especially The Adoption Reunion Handbook
    http://www.baaf.org.uk/res/pubs/books/
    book_arh.shtml

    Here’s another page with reunion related stuff links from the BAAF site:
    http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=64249338&nsb=1&pid=r&mode=
    ALL&query=reunion&t=s

  2. More of an educational piece for mothers, but based on the experiences of myself and many other mothers I have spoken to.

    Reunion: Throwing away the ball-and-chain

  3. Claud,

    I just sent you via email three essays on preparing for reunion from my unpublished book of essays from my former newsletter. I hope you will find them useful and relevant.

    Someday I will get it together to get a book out there! Let me know what you think of the essays.

    Cheers,
    MAC

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