Articles By: FauxClaud

Adoption Facts Demand Infant Adoption Reformation

There are some facts about adoption that, really, you cannot dispute unless you are just trying to purposely to stay ignorant regarding the facts of infant adoption in this country. Adoption is, in its perfect form, suppose to be about finding homes for children that need them, not about finding children...

March 9th, 2010 | First-Moms, Issues | Read More

Marijuana Makes Adoptive Parents Look Bad: Yes I mean YOU!

Adoptive Parents are NOT Acting in Best Interest of Children; Choosing Drugs over Kids ETA: Adoptee Rights has made it to the second and final round: PLEASE VOTE AGAIN!! Currently, Adoptees OBC access is currently in 14th Place and needs 16 more votes to be one of the 10 winning ideas. We have a...

February 17th, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature | Read More

Lessons from the Haiti Adoption Fiasco

Media Attention of Haiti Adoption Sheds Light on Raw Adoption Truths It seemed like the minute I heard about the earthquake in Haiti, the story was linked to adoption. My poor husband, such a news junkie, started clicking away from the channels when an adoption related story came on. I had to tell him...

February 9th, 2010 | Feature, First-Moms, Haiti | Read More

Miracle on Social Network: Facebook Adoption Group Finds Family in Record Time

Adoption Search Facebook Style! I watched a miracle happen on Facebook. Just now. It was amazing. A friend of mine, who is an adoptee, put together a Facebook group asking for help finding her birth family. Yesterday. By now there are 259 members of the group. All from different parts of the adoption...

January 19th, 2010 | Domestic, Feature, First-Moms | Read More

Fending Reactions to ABC’s Finding My Family

Find My Family Finds Adoption Controversy I find myself really almost perplexed by the idea people actually have issues with just the name of the dern TV show: Find My Family. The controversy is getting allot of attention as even the New York Times took note. If the public overwhelmingly finds...

December 13th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

There is No Escaping Mother’s Day

I don’t really like Mother’s Day. There. I said it. I know I am supposed to be grateful. I know I am supposed to be joyous. I know I am supposed to be thrilled with any aspect of being remembered and appreciated on this one day. But I’m not and I don’t like the idea of whole...

November 14th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

What National Adoption Awareness Month Means to Me

Why this Birthmother will NOT be Celebrating This November When you are painfully aware of the coming of November, the dreading commences upon the first days of school. The air begins to stir and the word adoption gets tossed about in the media with an increasing popularity. The feelers go out by...

November 5th, 2009 | Feature, First-Moms | Read More

Getting Ready for My Gotcha Day

Not all discussions are going to have a resolution..and for many discussions that is not even the point to begin with. This isn’t a “Gotcha is yucky for “some” people so we have to find a new word and enforce it on everyone and judge those harshly who use it” post . It’s...

September 24th, 2009 | Adoption Day, Feature | Read More

Easy Steps to Help Adoptees

What Adoptive Parents can do to Improve Their Children’s Future One night, look upon your sleeping child and say these words to yourself. “My child is growing up in a world where they will be denied the same rights of every other American just because he /she came to my life through adoption.” If...

August 14th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

How has Adoption Really Changed?

I get frustrated when I discuss my feelings on adoption and someone inevitably says to me, “But adoption is different these days. Surely, you must think that open adoption is better. Adoption just not the same as what you went through”. “Really?” I want to say in my best snarky...

August 1st, 2009 | Feature | Read More