Category Archives: Adoption

Good news for adoption researchers and activists! The Triadoption  Archives–a massive collection of news and magazine articles, adoption reform newsletters, search and reunion materials, maternity home/adoption agency directories, pictures, and audio and video records — is now digitized and online. Much of the material is from the 1970s and 1980s, but some goes back as far as the 1930s. I admit it. that until  Paul Redmond posted a link to the site this afternoon on the Bastard Nation FB page, I’d never heard of the Triadoption Archives.  My bet is you haven’t  heard of  it either, and it’s a shame for both of us. From an introduction to the archives page: TRIADOPTION® was formed as an information center in 1978 to gather and dispense data to assist adoptees, birthparents, siblings and others in locating family members. Based on the belief that adoption adds options and creates extended families, it seemed appropriate to support full disclosure to all involved parties, opening of all sealed records and assistance in acquiring everything pertinent to facilitating reunions and ongoing relationships.For a decade, adoption reform movement newsletters were collected from over 500 organizations spread across North America and some around the world. Newspaper and magazine Continue Reading →

Claud d’Arcy has been kickin’ it high this NaBloPomo with some very relevant wor.k on her blog, Musungs of the Lame. Today she published a very nice research piece BraveLoveorg– Another Front for Adoption Profits.  on bravelove.org,  a new, seemingly well-funded, baybee grabbing organization out of Dallas.  I considered looking  into bravelove myself, but was busy with other projects and knew it wouldn’t happen, so I’m happy Claud  picked up up the shotgun and bagged a big one.. Here’s what bravelove says about itself.(my emphasis): Our mission is to change the perception of adoption through honest, informative, and hopeful communication that conveys the heroism and bravery a birth mother displays when she places her child with a loving family through adoption. The heartbreaking truth is that many women facing unplanned pregnancy feel unable to care for a child. Sometimes the single-most loving thing a mother can do is place her child with a loving, eager adoptive family. We aim to invite and empower women to choose adoption. In other words, heroizing women into tossing their newborns into the ever-shrinking adoption market evaporating  for  lack of product. Altruism.  See, if  you love your baby hard enough,  you;’ll give it away,.  I Continue Reading →

Bastard Goddess Janet gets her OBC One of the collateral benefits and enjoyments of bastard rights activism has been the election,of adoptees and other adoption reform activists to state legislatures. After a couple years of trying to pass access legislation in New Hampshire, in 2004 Bastard Nation’s own Janet Allen was elected to the New Hampshire House.  During her second term, she was instrumental in the enactment of SB 335  which retored the right of all the state’s adoptees the access upon request.of their original birth certificates.  Janet was the first person in the state to receive her OBC when  records were opened January 2005. Since then Maine has elected two activists to its House. Bobbi Beavers,  first mother and co-founder of OBC for ME,  shepherded PL 409 which  in 2009, restored the right of OBC access to Maine adoptees, through the Legislature   She was was elected to the House in 2010 (D-District 148) and  re-elected yesterday,  3,164-  2,094. Bobbi sits on the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology. Her legislative interests  include foreclosure protection and environmental issues. Bobbi earned  perfect marks from the non-partisan Maine Conservation Voters for her votes to protect the environment and invest Continue Reading →

It’s baaack! The 6th annual Demons of Adoption Awards competition is now open for nominations.  I’ve made my nomination, now make yours. Go here to nominate and get more information.. I know it’s difficult . So many Demons, and only one can be chosen. From Pound Pup Legacy, founder and sponsor of the competition::In 2007 Pound Pup Legacy instituted the annual Demons of Adoption Awards to raise a voice against adoption propaganda and the self congratulatory practices of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s annual Angels in Adoption Awards.  Until September 30 you, the reader, can nominate candidates for the sixth annual Demons of Adoption Award. After that date, PPL will post a poll where readers may vote for the nominees. The link for nominations may be found at: http://poundpuplegacy.org/sixth_demons_of_adoption_nominations When posting, please state your nominee and a short explanation as to why this candidate has the dubious honor of winning the award. Previous editions:First Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to the National Council for Adoption)Second Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to the makers of Juno) Third Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to Bethany Christian Services)Fourth Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to Continue Reading →

While I’m not a big fan of adoption conferences (I’m working on a on piece on how, with few exceptions, they routinely disempower bastards and simply feed the egos and coffers of their sponsors), this one looks worthwhile  . On October 18-20  2012, The Adoption Initiative in collaboration with Montclair State College is holding Bests Interests of the Child:  Race Religion, and Rescue in Adoption. The schedule and list of speakers isn’t up yet, but the topic is timely and important to the never ending efforts to clean up adoption, The Orphan Rescue movement such as Both Ends Burning has made it quite clear that adoption laws and ethics should not stand in the way of child rescue aka christian conversion and humanitarian neo-colonialism.  IMO, BEM and its ilk are the worse danger we face today.  How all this will be addressed in the conference, I don’t know. but I know I’d like to be there.  But can’t. Here’s the information: The 7th Biennial Adoption Conference “Best Interests of the Child?” Race, Religion, and Rescue in Adoption October 18-20, 2012 ****EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN**** Register here now: Conference Registration Location: St. John’s University, ManhattanFor the latest information about the conference, Continue Reading →

It’s official. As we reported Saturday Washington SUB HB 2211 is dead for this session. Although  it’s still in the hopper, perennial bill killer, and bastard baiter Sen. Jim Hargrove, told 2211’s sponsor Rep. Tina Orwall that he has no plan to bring  it forward this year. Naturally, Hargrove is not available for comment, a convenience that enables him to sidestep the question even the most incurious reporter must wonder: what’s your problem with bastards? But never fear! Tina Ovrwall intends to bring the bill back next year. Don’t get too excited, though. According to the Tacoma News Tribune, her comrade in compromise, birthmother Rep  Ann Rivers, who is currently under the impression (we hope she wakes up) that she speaks for voiceless cowering first mothers: I  think it will give us the direction that Sen. Hargrove might have perceived was lacking,” Rivers said. “We’ll make sure all the bases are covered, and we’ll proceed. And just what might that direction be? Hargrove supported the 1993 law that opened OBCs for October 1, 1993 adoptions and beyond  unless a disclosure veto has been filed. According to Wa-Care no vetoes have been filed; Laurie Lippold from the Washington Children’s Home Society Continue Reading →

TESTIMONY SUB HB 2211: Adoptee access to their own original birth certificates Washington Senate Human Services and Corrections Committee xxxx, 2012 OPPOSE Privilege is the opposite of rights Our Washington representative may not be able the attend the hearing so we are submitting this testimony/letter via email. Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization is the largest adoptee civil rights organization in the United States. We support full, unrestricted access for all adopted persons, to their original birth certificates. (OBC). Bastard Nation’s roots are in Washington State, and we would like nothing more than to support SUB HB 2211. Unfortunately we cannot. The sticking point is SUB HB 2211’s “affidavit of non-disclosure,” otherwise known as a Disclosure Veto. This veto creates a special third party privilege for birth parents that no one, parent or otherwise, possesses:  to bypass state law and to personally bar the state from releasing another person’s birth certificate to the person to whom it pertains. This onerous and discriminatory veto privilege, already in place for Washington adoptions finalized on and after October 1 1993, is extended in SUB HB 2211 to cover adoptions finalized before October 1, 1993;. The bill expands the pool of adoptees unable to Continue Reading →

Get this straight. Washington HB 2211/Sub HB 2211 is not an adoptee rights bill.  It does not restore the right of Washington State’s Class Bastard to their original birth certificates. HB 2211/Sub HB 2211 expands the already-in-place October 1, 1993 disclosure veto backward to include all adoptions. HB 2211/Sub HB 2211 creates a new and unique tiered DV system that not only retains the current segregation of the adopted from the non-adopted, but creates two tiers of black-holed adoptees segregated from the non-vetoed adopted and from each other.This miscreation of the bureaucratic mind  is supported by naive deformers who believe that something is better than nothing, even as they claim to abhor the something. Tina Orwall THE STORYEarlier this session WA-Care  (and on Facebook) the latest iteration  Washington’s Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, got  a bill,  HB 2211 introduced, that would  open  the original birth certificates of the state’s adoptees, except when it didn’t.  Promoted as an “adoptee rights bill” the proposal, sponsored by adoptee Rep. Tina Orwall, (D-DesMoines) would not only keep the current October 1, 1993 disclosure veto in place, but extend it backwards to blackhole  those adopted anytime in the past; thus, expanding the pool of those whose Continue Reading →

I’ve got a lot to say about what’s going on in Washington State. Unfortunately, I’m very backed up tonight, with among other things-updating Bastard Nation’s opposition testimony. In the meantime, though, please go over here and leave your opinion about some grossly inaccurate information spreading the bill. To make a long story short (which I’ll be making long, of course, in my blog) HB 2211 passed the House on Saturday.  The bill, which already expanded the Disclosure Veto, now has been amended to create a tiered system of DVs. One set of timeframe rules for one group of adoptees; a second set for another group.  Just how legalistic and lunatic can these guys get? Now, HB 2211 is being compared to Oregon’s clean law with no vetoes, no restrictions, no conditions. Please go over here and let your opinion be heard.  HB22211 is anti-adoptee and anti-adoptee rights.