Excellent article (link below) on the national adoption reform trend to restore the unconditional right of adult adoptees access to their original (unfalsified) birth certificates. The Child Welfare League of America, Holt International, and The American Adoption Congress all strongly support this legislation.
Push on to open Connecticut birth records to adult adoptees: The Middletown Press, CT
July 15, 2012
July 12, 2012
"Geographies of Kinship" ~ A Documentary
Deann Borshay Liem is a documentary
filmmaker and adoptee.
Her first two films, "First Person Plural" and "In TheMatter of Cha Jung Hee" are about her own adoption from Korea into the Borshay family in Fremont California, and her subsequent search to find the girl she was switched with before she came to the US.
"Geographies of Kinship" (her third documentary, currently in production) follows five Korean adoptees from the U.S. and Europe on their journeys to reconnect with their birth country and piece
together their past.
Their riveting stories serve as a springboard for exploring the history of transnational adoptions from Korea, from the 1950s to the present.
Please visit her website to see a clip from this amazing work and help spread the word and support for this project!
July 8, 2012
The Forgotten Solution to the Abortion Debate?
"Adoption statistics are hard to track, since states are not necessarily required to report domestic adoptions. However, the numbers are grim, and much of it is owing to abortion. If true, such a mindset is troubling. How could we be so hostile to life, particularly given that "there are up to 36 couples waiting for every one baby placed for adoption"? The data is admittedly sparse, but sufficient."
See the entire article here:
The Forgotten Solution to the Abortion DebateJuly 6, 2012
An Apology: It's About Time
An apology to forced adoption birth mothers: it's about time
By Patricia'>http://theconversation.edu.au/profiles/patricia-fronek-7063">Patricia Fronek, Griffith University and Denise'>http://theconversation.edu.au/profiles/denise-cuthbert-10553">Denise Cuthbert, RMIT University
A national'>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/forced-adoption-apology-a-significant-step-for-healing-20120622-20tod.html">national apology to Australian mothers who experienced forced adoptions was announced by Attorney General Nicola Roxon last weekend.
This apology will follow those made to the Stolen'>http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/indigenous/progserv/engagement/Pages/national_apology.aspx">Stolen Generations, Forgotten'>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/transcript-of-kevin-rudds-apology-to-forgotten-australians/story-e6frf7l6-1225798255277">Forgotten Australians and Lost'>http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/0910/ChildMigrants">Lost Innocents. Overseas birth mothers affected by forced adoptions should also be on our radar.
On the 18th July, South Australia will apologise to Australian mothers whose children were removed. The Western Australian government, the Sisters of Mercy, the Catholic Church, the Uniting Church and Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital have already offered apologies.
Planning for the national apology is underway. Australian mothers have worked hard to bring these breaches of human rights into public consciousness. They have also been among the first to recognise that their experiences and treatment by individuals, institutions and governments are strikingly similar to those of birth mothers in overseas adoptions.
During the 2005'>http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=fhs/./adoption/media.htm">2005 Inquiry into Overseas Adoption, Australian mothers reminded us that overseas mothers feel the same grief and life-long consequences of forced separation from their children as they do.
Research into the circumstances of overseas adoptions tells us that children adopted overseas are taken away because the mothers were single, widowed or divorced or most often simply poor.
Government policies (or the absence of them), disasters, child trafficking and the private market provide the means to separate many children from their families. Resources are directed at institutionalisation and child removal for adoption instead of social policies for health and welfare, education, community development and the most basic safety nets necessary for family preservation in times of crises.
Overseas birth mothers are finding their voice. The'>http://koreanunwedmoms.blogspot.com.au/">The Korean Unwed Mothers Support Network, Mindeulae, Truth'>http://justicespeaking.wordpress.com/objective-%EB%AA%A9%EC%A0%81/">Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and other organisations are influencing governments in South Korea.
Birth mothers, adoptees and in some cases adoptive parents are working together to effect change in South Korea where vast numbers of children have been adopted overseas since the 1950s. A Korean 60'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnSuTNPAwE">60 Minutes broadcast exposed corrupt practices and abuses of birth mothers on Korean television in 2005.
In more impoverished countries, such as Romania and Ethiopia, birth mothers continue to experience breaches of their basic rights and lack of support. Many birth mothers, like adoptive parents and adoptees before them, are connecting with each other internationally via the internet. They share their stories, achievements and support.
Social workers and other professionals are addressing human rights and social justice concerns and supporting family reunification in Asia and the South Americas.
Australian society has changed. Apologies to groups harmed by past practices tell us clearly that these practices are no longer acceptable in 2012. Some commentators might argue that past abuses happened because we were unaware of the consequences. In Australia today, we can’t claim ignorance of the circumstances of overseas birth mothers.
A growing body of research tells us that lack of options, coercion, and unethical and illegal practices do exist. U.S. legal academic, David Smolin, warns that the position of birth mothers is the “elephant in the room” whenever overseas adoption is talked about.
More than 10,000 children have lost their first families and been adopted into Australia since the 1970s. As yet there is no consistent national approach to post-adoption support, including assisting adoptees searching for their birth families.
Australia is leading the way in apologies to Australian birth mothers. Governments and birth mothers in the UK, Canada and elsewhere are watching events in Australia closely. Overseas birth mothers should also be on the Australian radar.
We will be called at some time in the future to account for our complicity and offer apologies to those affected by what we already know.
Patricia Fronek is a member of NICAAG (National Intercountry Adoption Advisory Group).
Denise Cuthbert is one of three Chief Investigators on an Australian Research Council funded project, A history of adoption in Australia.
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This article was originally published at The'>http://theconversation.edu.au">The Conversation.
Read the original'>http://theconversation.edu.au/an-apology-to-forced-adoption-birth-mothers-its-about-time-7875">original article.
July 5, 2012
Freezers Are For Food
"The conception industry takes its cues from the adoption industry -- just because they CAN move human offspring around like so many packaged goods they assume it causes no harm or danger."
For entire article link here: Freezers Are For Food
For entire article link here: Freezers Are For Food
Science Daily: Childhood adversity increases risk for depression
"What's important about this study is that it identifies a group of people who are prone to have depression and inflammation at the same time.
That group of people experienced major stress in childhood, often related to poverty, having a parent with a severe illness, or lasting separation from family. As a result, these individuals may experience depressions that are especially difficult to treat."
Entire article here: Childhood adversity increases risk for depression and chronic inflammation
That group of people experienced major stress in childhood, often related to poverty, having a parent with a severe illness, or lasting separation from family. As a result, these individuals may experience depressions that are especially difficult to treat."
Entire article here: Childhood adversity increases risk for depression and chronic inflammation
July 4, 2012
California Multiple Parents Bill: Proposed Legislation Would Allow Children To Have Three Or More Parents
This proposed law only proves to reinforce the ridiculousness of falsified (amended) birth certificates in the first place.
Every American deserves the right to an ACCURATE birth certificate, not one that lists "legal" parents. A "Certificate of Live Birth" is a government document that should be required to ONLY list those who actually give birth and/or provide the true DNA...that would ensure every individual in America the right to KNOW their true identity ~ DNA/parentage/genealogical heritage.
This basic human right is STRIPPED from adoptees and donor-conceived persons. If a "legal" parent needs to be named, it should not be done on a birth certificate...
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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