Category Archives: Adoptee Rights

Huxley Stauffer and the Pattern of Re-homing. Making connections.

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Well, no, Susan, it’s not unusual, and you know it.  Re-homing happens all the time.  Allegedly, about 25% of new adoptees are spammed back into the adoption or foster care system, but no one really has a good count since many re-homings are off-paper…Whatever the number, there are special “adoption agencies”  such as Wasatch International Adoptions /2nd Chance Adoptions, complete with Georgia Tann-like photo listings, to move the little misfits around.  Second-chance products are routinely advertised on Facebook. (Note the number of kids that appear to be international and “minority” retreads). Continue Reading →

Bentonville, Arkansas: 1st Baby Box Dump. Not a time to celebrate

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Few details are available yet, but tomorrow the town will host a press conference featuring Safe Haven Baby Box Founder Monica Kelsey flying in from Indiana. where she has already installed 21 Boxes and at least another 26 have been 26 approved or proposed. Invitations have been sent to local business leaders, state representatives, members of Congress, and Governor Asa Hutchinson. Nothing like politicizing a personal tragedy, especially in a big election year. Continue Reading →

More good news out of Missouri…Baby Box bill dies

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Baby Box bill
HB1437,  died when the Missouri Legislature closed up shop on May 15. The bill would have amended the state’s Safe Haven Law to allow parents to drop off  infants up to 45 days old in a hole-in-the-wall Safe Haven Baby Box.  Read that again. 45  days old Continue Reading →

No Baby Drop Boxes for Florida This Session: Bills are dead.

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Earlier this session Lauren Book chair of the Senate Health Policy Committee, opposed SB864, the Senate version of the baby box bill and held it up in her committee where it died after failing to meet hearing deadlines.  After the House version, HB1217 passed it bounced into The Book Committee where once again the senator refused to let it be heard.  Continue Reading →

Donald Trump’s Lawyer Jay Sekulow is an Adopteephobic Bigot

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I know I’ve written about this before, but it can’t be said enough:  JAY SEKULOW IS AN ADOPTEEPHOBIC BIGOT. He believes we have no right to our OBCs and other records. But besides this general disability, he has claimed we are conniving dupes and baby killers. Yes, according to Sekulow, the adoptee rights; movement is a front for “abortion advocates.” Continue Reading →

New York: NYARC Update on January 15, 2020 OBC access

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We have been given limited information from our DOH contacts—as others may have received—that the state and city are both “diligently” working on the application forms but such forms are not yet available or fully developed. We have been advised that there will be a webinar with all applicable agencies sometime during the week of 1/6/20 to help make the process more efficient. Continue Reading →

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If passed, instead of receiving their Original Birth Certificates upon request, without restriction, Lucky Bastards will receive a court -generated document— a copy of their Report of Adoption form. The form is routinely sent by the court to the Wisconsin Office of Vital Statistics after an adoption is finalized, to request the Amended Birth Certificate be issued. It includes the names of the child, birth and adoptive parents and other OBC information. Continue Reading →

Adoptees are not adoption. Adoption is not a reality show.

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I consider these numerous news stories to be adoption porn, especially since this finalization took place on Kent County, Michigan’s  Gotcha Day, December 4. Or rather Sealed Records Day. Or Adoptee Erasure Day. Or Child Scoop Day.. Or Adoptee SaIvior Day (race and religion optional but white and  Christian preferred).  Continue Reading →

Wisconsin SB 521: What in the world is Wisconsin doing?

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f passed, instead of receiving their Original Birth Certificates upon request, Lucky Bastards will receive a copy of their Report of Adoption.form, The form is routinely sent by the court to the Wisconsin Office of Vital Statistics after an adoption is finalized, to request the ABC be issued–if the adoptive parents have requested a new certificate. It includes the names of the child, birth and adoptive  parents and other OBC information. Continue Reading →

Happy Thanksgiving and NAAM from Catholic Charities

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Here ‘s the Happy NAAM greeting: a paper doll family held in the hands of a white child whom I assume is an adoptee holding the family together Personally I don’t think any child should tasked with that kind of responsibility. Unfortunately, in AdoptionLand I’ve met plenty of adoptees who were. What if she goes bad and sets the family on fire? Continue Reading →