Archive for the ‘Adoptee Rights’ Category

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

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

The Genetics of Adoption

The Genetics of Adoption
This morning I completed my first round of genetic testing, an intensely painful endometrial biopsy. On Monday I have an ultrasound and on Friday I see a geneticist – my mother beside me to help answer questions about my own family history. Why all this? I am lucky enough to have a brilliant OBGYN...
February 15th, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature, Guatemala, Issues, Russia | Read More

How Could People Steal Children?

How Could People Steal Children?
I read an article this morning that just broke my heart. Okay, it didn’t break my heart. It angered me beyond anger. It pissed me off. It made me want to…well, I don’t know. I haven’t stayed abreast of all of the Haitian adoption/orphan stories because most of it, in my opinion,...
February 3rd, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature, Haiti, Trauma, adoption process | Read More

Adoption Carnival V: What do you want REFORMED?

Adoption Carnival V: What do you want REFORMED?
Adoption Reform means so many things because we all come from different parts of the adoption community. To you reform may mean making original birth certificates available to every adoptee, to me it may mean making all countries Hague compliant. Almost everyone involved in adoption believes that the...
January 28th, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Advocate, Carnival, Feature | Read More

Every Adoptee Legit

Every Adoptee Legit
Over six MILLION adopted persons in 44 states are denied access to their original birth certificates. Neither of my boys have theirs. They have our names on them and that is just not right… I didn’t birth them. It should be, at least in my measly opinion, a birth certificate and an adoption...
January 22nd, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature, Issues | Read More