CLAUD KICKS NCFA’S ASS

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Claud’s November 29 blog expose of the National Council for Adoption, the perfectly titled Mothers, Money, Marketers, and Madness is a very important piece of writing that everyone involved in adoption reform should read, save, and act on. It is all fact, taken from the public record, NCFA’s own website and publications and the words of NCFA’s friends. As the World War 2 slogan goes: Loose ships sink ships. No commentary is needed. Go to Musings of the Lame, and read the whole thing. Here is the conclusion: It actually has to be expected. The bottom line is that the National Council for Adoption wants mothers to be separated from their children. Their very existence was conceived to make family separation seem like a good idea and teach others in the field the same positive view. The NCFA does this to protect their members’ interests. Their members are adoption agencies. Adoption agencies make billions of dollars in profits from family separation. They need babies to continue business. Millions of dollars given and spent to convince the public and mothers that giving your baby away is a good thing. And for what reason? Follow the money. Babies are the products to Continue Reading →

ARE ADOPTEES TERRORISTS?

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The current government considers all USians terrorists unless proven otherwise. Intimidation, once the entertainment of the petty thug, the unregulated police, and the 3rd world dictator, is now institutionalized as a legitimate activity of the US government against the people—all in the name of “security.” Airport gulags, metal detectors, checkpoints in public buildings, bizarre dress codes in schools, drug tests, free speech zones, no fly lists, library snooping, snitch sites, warrantless wire tapping and email reading, press pens, infiltration of political, social, and justice movements, embedded reporters, phony press conferences, the militarization of the police, and taser mania come to mind. Welcome to the United States of Paranoia. Lizard Chronicles today has a very important blog for all of us who value free speech, free thought, and political dissent: Democracy is a VERB. As LC points out, “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” can affect all of us. Yes, adoptee rights activists, organizations, searchers,—and even bloggers–could be targeted as terrorists if this Draconian proposal passes. (It’s now in the Senate; the House passed it nearly unanimously) About 3 years ago in my own state, under the regime of evangelical Christian Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, “Ohio Homeland Security” Continue Reading →

OHIO: BAD BINKIE FOR THE WILLOUGHBY NEWS-HERALD

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(NOTE: I don’t know what it is with Blogger and news stories. If the link doesn’t work go to the “opinion/editorial” link.) Here is a truly stupid editorial from Saturday’s Willoughby (Ohio) News Herald: Don’t Open Up Adoption Records. While the sentiment certainly isn’t new, I have no memory of ever reading anything this (excuse the pun) ill-conceived, ill-education, and plain ignorant on records access. Who wrote it? A high school intern? There are so many things wrong with this editorial it’s hard to know where to begin. The writer obviously knows nothing about how adoption operates in general, and in Ohio in particular. A 5-minute jaunt to Ohio Vital Records would have shown him or her that a substantial number of obcs are already unsealed in Ohio. (Pre-1964’s are open without restriction; 1/1/1964-9/17/1996 are sealed but by court order; and anything after that date is available to adoptees 21 or older unless a bparent has placed a disclosure veto with the state. (Adoptive parents can access them for adoptees between the ages of 18-21 unless there’s a veto) But you need to read it for yourself, If I didn’t know better I’d think this is a parody. These are Continue Reading →

NATIONAL ADOPTION AWARENESS MONTH: LAWYER ROTTENTAIL–A SONG

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Here it is more than half-way through National Adoption Awareness Month and Bastardette hasn’t even commented on this exciting celebration we hold dear to our hearts. I mean, how many other politically deprived classes get their own government sponsored month where they are told how lucky they to be disenfranchised? Only us bastards. And as a bonus we get a scolding (Bastardette, Nov. 20) from adoption hack Aaron Brivan! (Would African Americans be lectured by Strom Thurmond during Black History Month?–Oh never mind!) The other day on BEST (the Bastard Nation list) we were discussing the erasure of “us” from “our” month when resident Bastard theologian Fr. Jack Sweely wrote: > I saw a commercial last night for a new series to start soon on the> Hallmark Channel. From what I gather it will highlight the warm fuzzies of> adoption one story per week compete with the gurgling Gerber Baby and amom> who “felt” her non-pregnancy pregnancy as she waited for “God’s gift.” My> guess is this series will be about as close to representing the reality of> adoption as is the Easter Bunnie representing Easter. Now, not to mix holidays (or is that metaphors?), but resident bmom poet and Continue Reading →

PENGUINS HAVE THEIR RECORDS ! WHY DON’T WE?

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Here is an adoption plan even Bastardette can support! ADOPT A PENGUIN! What’s really good about this is that the penguin you adopt will have more information about him or herself than a lot of bastards–including you! Each penguin adoption comes with a cuddly penguin plush toy, beautiful penguin photo, a fact sheet chock-full of fascinating information about these amazing birds and a personalized Certificate of Adoption. Adopt a penguin, Then write your local politicians and demand the same rights as Mumble! PENGUINS HAVE THEIR RECORDS? WHY DON’T WE?

WELCOME NEW ADOPTABLOGGERS!

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Bastardette is happy to introduce you to two new adoptabloggers They aren’t new to adoption, but their blogs are. Sleeps with Bastard is a longtime friend and colleague of Bastardette. You’ll be reading some amazing stuff from him involving addressing bastardy in a larger political and cultural context As he writes in his intro, About this blog: The state of American politics, along with that of American culture, social structure, and yes, the practice of adoption, often can be tied back to one manifestation of that hum: a set of underlying assumptions about how the world works, assumptions that are often false but that ultimately serve to benefit some people and harm others. This is an important blog! I’m also happy to introduce to you Michael Allen Potter, one of the most articulate adoption writers in the field today. Old timers may remember his Who Am I? and Killing the Buddha, both of which now appears on his blog I Cartographer. I was just thinking of him the other day, and I suddenly found a note from him n my mailbox! Both these men are exciting additions to the AdoptaBlogosphere and I urge you to link and read them regularly.

MEDIA SHOUT-OUTS FOR ADOPTEE RIGHTS

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Here is a (probably incomplete) compilation of blog comments and media commentary about adoptee rights and NPR that have appeared in the week since the Donaldson report was released. This list does not include the Crary or other articles which appeared upon release of the report or articles I’ve already discussed. If you know of others, please post them here in comments. Remember to check your own local newspapers and TV stations; then stir it up! NOTE: I’ll be adding new citations as they come in, so check back.BLOGSAdopteeAmy: Adoptee Foes vs Adoptee FriendsAs someone who is denied access to her original birth certificate on the basis of her birth, I honestly can’t tell you what I would do if I had that document in my hands. I couldn’t tell you if I would make contact. Still no matter what, it is my right. Baby Love Child: Adam Pertman, please shut up.The crux of his argument was ’see, our RESEARCH shows, open records don’t hurt anybody’. NCFA will be more than glad to provide an ENDLESS parade of those ‘hurt by openness’, in response, I assure you.)…The crux of our argument is the demand that what the government robbed us Continue Reading →

FLORIDA: DAVID BUNDY–GET A LIFE!

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Here’s the letter I wrote to the Orlando Sentinel regarding David Bundy’s claim that the Florida Children’s Home Society promises anonymity to women who place their children for adoption. Please go over to the site (link above) and add your own comments–or write a letter. To the Editor: David Bundy, CEO of the Florida Children’s Home Society claims that parents who place their children are guaranteed anonymity (Nov. 18). Under what authority does Mr. Bundy make this promise? In the 30 year War Against Adoptees, the adoption industry has been force feeding this mythical promise to lawmakers and the public in an effort hide their own misdeeds. They have been unable, however, to present one single document or other evidence that shows these “guarantees.” Original birth records are sealed when an adoption is ordered, not when parental rights are terminated. If the child is not adopted, the birth records remain unsealed. During the relinquishment and adoption process, names and other identifying information about biological parents are often posted in legal ads in newspapers and appear on court documents given to adoptive parents. The not-adopted need not justify why they want their vital records. They have a presumed right to their Continue Reading →

ANONYMITY: THE NEW CONFIDENTIAL–ADOPTION SHILLS SPEAK OUT

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Sunday, two adoption shills, NCFA crony Aaron Britvan and Florida Children’s Home Society David Bundy, crawled out of their cabbage patch to complain about the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute’s “For the Records” report issued last week which recommended the opening of adoption records to all adult adoptees. I obviously have problems with the report, but I’ve also got a problem with adoptacrats who write to newspapers, grinding their fangs because the beneficiaries of their hard work don’t sufficiently appreciate their efforts to disengage us from our identities and rights. And first mothers….it’s a wonder, at least according to these bullies, that the poor “vulnerable” dears answer their phones for fear of what BBB’s (Bastards Behaving Badly) might do. After all, our moms (why don’t these hacks ever mention dads?) were “promised anonymity.” Did they sign the papers in invisible ink? Anonymity? Bastardette must be dense. I thought it was all about “confidentiality” and “privacy” But then, since the advent of legalized baby dumping (what the adoption class nicely calls “Safe Haven laws”) we’ve seen a conflation of these two Axis of Evil favorites with their new favorite “promise”: anonymity. Or maybe these guys think they’re all the same thing.If Continue Reading →

FOR THE RECORDS: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY

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The report is a conservative document with nothing new for Bastards to chew on though newbies and the public may find it useful. It advocates “rights” but unfortunately continues to address sealed birth records as a “personal” not a class and political problem. It conflates the absolute right to acquire our own government- confiscated records and information with the personal desire of search, reunion, and “medical history.” These internal contradictions mitigate our rights while validating opposition arguments and deformer compromise “solutions” to OBC access. Continue Reading →