Adoptive Parents, Adult Adoptees, First Parents…

By TAO

Want a challenge?  When you click the More link shut your eyes and imagine the faces of adoptees who want the right to their original birth certificate. 

 

The “birthmother” is not moving on…

By TAO

I am acknowledging I have no direct experience in what I am saying below. My experience is different, but I do believe there are parallels between the two experiences.

 

Oh the spinning of old comments into new positive comments…

By TAO

The words might have changed but the reality didn’t…

From “you could have been aborted” to “she chose life“…

 

Kathryn Joyce has an opinion piece up at Huff Post…

The Problem With the Christian Adoption Movement

“Several weeks ago, in honor of “Birthmothers’ Day,” the pre-Mother’s Day celebration of women who relinquish children for adoption, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Fox News analyst Nina Easton. In it, Easton, an adoptive mother, called for a shift in language that would recast adoption not as abandonment, but as a heroic gift of life that a biological mother can make not only to her child, but also to would-be adoptive parents. In her opening paragraph, Easton lamented that adoption “carries such a social stigma that domestic placement of infants has plummeted — even as the number of parents desperate for a baby grows.” Changing the language around adoption, she suggested, to call “birthmothers” selfless and loving, could help encourage more women to relinquish.”

 

Jackson Katz talk at TEDxFiDiWomen

By TAO

From Ted.com “Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue“
“Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called “women’s issues.” But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men’s issues — and shows how these violent behaviors are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all — women and men — to call out unacceptable behavior and be leaders of change.

 

Misconception in open adoption…

By TAO

I have seen an increase in comments that domestic open adoption has solved the problem of the adult adoptee not having the same right to their Original Birth Certificate (OBC) as non-adopted, or, that the adopting parents obtained the child’s OBC prior to the adoption so their child won’t be denied the right.