NAN/NAAM Day 21. Federal Legislation Introduced to Kick Adoption Facilitators to the Curb

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No bill number is listed in the press release, and I can’ find it by name on the US Senate Legislative page, so it’s just been dropped with no action yet.  Without reading the details I can’t critique, endorse or diss it, but if there is nothing in language hidey-holes it looks good- (for once!). This is something adoption reformers have practically begged for for decades:  kicking adoption facilitators– aka leeches, crooks, frauds–out of business. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 20: NAM/NAAM is Eating my Brain

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Here we are, November 20, 2025, and nearly 2/3 through NAM/NAAM.  It’s the middle of the night, and I have nothing to say…writing every day about adoption and its adjacents is a killer. And, so limiting. I want to jump out the window, but we live in a 1-storey house, and I could only crawl out the window, if I could get it open Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 18: Was Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc’s Monica Kelsey Dangerously Discarded?

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or a long time I have questioned some of the origin story of Monical Kelsey, the CEO/founder of SHBB Inc. I believe that much of it is true as told, but there is some artful dodging at the same time. One thing that has really bothered me for years is her narrative that she was abandoned at the hospital by her mother 2 hours after birth. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 19. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Gets Some Good Press in Israel

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A couple weeks ago, I interviewed with Roni Dori from Calcalist, the largest business publication in Israel, regarding adoptee opposition to Safe Haven Baby Boxes. The official English language article will be out next week, and I think it will be online. But in the meantime, here is the original, which you can translate with Google. Translate. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 17, 2025. The Baby Box Questions that Safe Haven Baby Box Inc CEO Monica Kelsey Ran Away from In Hamilton, Ohio

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Below is the list of questions political watchdog Chris Hicks attempted to ask SHBB Inc CEO/Founder Monica Kelsey at last week’s baby box opening in Hamilton, Ohio. Instead of being professional and answering them or politely declining, she called for Security and ran away.  Each question is reasonable and something that a member of any legislature might ask–and in some cases has asked. Did she run out of the hearing room? Call for the state patrol? Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 16. Weirdo Facebook Convo about Adoption and Safe Haven Practices. Adopt a Fetus

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he Adoption-Safe Haven Baby Box thread caught my eye, bringing a new insanity to Safe Haven discourse. “Yes Adoption. Pro-Life will often say that there is no difference between a human life that is born and a life that is unborn. So if those that are born can be adopted, let the unborn be adopted as well.“ Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 15. Hey Donald! Where’s the Annual NAM/NAAM Presidential Proclamation?

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We are halfway through NAM/NAMM and have yet to see the annual NAM/NAM Presidential Proclamation. We’ve gotten one every year for years even during Trump 1. What’s going on?…I’m glad he’s ignoring us. I don’t want the good name of Bastard sullied by his pathetic orange self.  We are messed with enough without his grubby small fingers poking into our business Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 14. NCFA Mythbook Arrives. Bastard Nation is “Crude,” “Offensive” and “Embarrassing” c 1999

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But none of the anti-adoption groups  are as purposefully virulent and proudly radical as the tiny, aggressive , and unfortunately named, “Bastard Nation,” spawned by angry adult adopted adults who found each other on the internet on alt.adoption Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 13. Trump Signs Executive Order: Fostering the Future for American Children and Families. The Evangelical Inclusion

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The EO promises to increase much-needed foster care improvements through taxpayer-funded tax-exempt so-called “faith-based” partnerships with private religious child welfare organizations, churches, and ministries, and to “take actions” of some type (financial?) against individual state government policies/agencies that limit or prohibit “faith-based” groups from participating….IMO, this is a poison pill that will be digested unnoticed, since “faith- based “relationships” in foster care and adoption are common, and the public does not understand the underbelly. Continue Reading →

NANM/NAAM Day 12: Monica Kelsey and SHBB Inc Gets Drop-Kicked at Hamilton, Ohio Baby Box Opening

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Ohio baby abandonment box opponent Chris Hicks did a spectacular job of running SHBB Inc into the ground at the opening of the Hamilton, Ohio, box on Tuesday (November 11). Monica Kelsey, SHBB Inc CEO/founder, went bonkers when he attempted to ask her perfectly reasonable questions, and she shouted for “Security” to get him out of her way. What a wimp!  According to her, asking perfectly reasonable questions is “harassment.” To make it worse, 1 local pol and the fire chief backed her,up, refusing to answer questions, though an amiable State Rep took the questions quite seriously and promised to look into things. Continue Reading →