Posts Tagged ‘Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy’

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

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

Momentary Snapshots in Becoming a Birthmother

I can retell this story as if it was a movie I have seen or a book that I have read. I can withdraw from almost all the feelings and simply recount the facts. I still fear to feel them as no matter how long has passed, no matter how much sometimes it might feel like another life, another story, that...

July 7th, 2009 | Feature, First-Moms | Read More

The Baby Scoop Era

The True Stories of Women Forced to Give Up Their Babies to Adoption My dear friend and adoptee, Celeste Billhartz, had a lovely article about her work in a recent article on the Akron Beacon Journal’s Ohio.com. Celeste is the author and performer of The Mother’s Project, multi media tribute...

June 10th, 2009 | Advocate, Feature | Read More

Is Your Adoption Agency Ethical?

How are perspective adoption parents supposed to know how ethical an adoption agency really is? An Inside Look from a Birthmother’s Perspective. Adoption is particularly hard because it is never something we really learn about before we find it in our lives. I know I never dreamed that one day...

June 5th, 2009 | Advocate, Domestic, First-Moms | Read More

Why Should We Care About the Fight to Open Adoption Records?

Just a quick factual update on Adoptee Rights to their Original Birth Certificates for all. In the US, 42 states continue the practice of sealing adopted children’s original birth certificates (the OBC) upon finalization of the adoption. This is one of the many areas of adoption legislation where...

May 22nd, 2009 | Advocate, Feature | Read More