You’d think CHIFF’s chief propagandist Katy Jay, would avoid petards for a few days. Not so! Tonight Ms. Jay dutifully climbed down from her petard (only to be re-hoist herself a few minutes later) to accuse Daniel Ibn Zayd, of hate speech! Continue Reading →
It all started on March 21 when Ms. Osborne took it upon herself to rant up an adoption academic tweeting under #STOPChiff, accusing her of criticizing the bill in order to sell her forthcoming book. (Ms. Osborne has obviously never published a scholarly book.) As usual, anyone opposing any crack-brained adoption or child welfare deform such as legalized baby dumping or global child snatching has some pecuniary interest to protect. Unlike the open-armed and -hearted multi-billion dollar/$60,000 a kid US adoption industry that pimps CHIFF in the “best interests of the child” .and would no doubt do adoptions for free if they could. Continue Reading →
The University of Michigan Press, publisher of the book, is currently offering a 30% discount. Here is a message from Professor Carp regarding the discount::
I am donating 10 percent of the royalties of my book, Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption, to the American Adoption Congress and another 10 percent to Concerned United Birthparents. Jean was instrumental in creating both organization and consequently it made sense that I donate to them. But even more important, as you will read in my book, Jean hated for people to make money off the backs of adopted people and birthmothers, and it is that sentiment that fueled my decision. Continue Reading →
Jay complains that since 2007 when Azerbaijan signed on to The Hague. that the flow of Azeri children into the US has dropped, accusing the State Department of having “no idea how to use the Convention for its intended purpose, which is to get orphans into adoptive families.”
Surprise!
According to the The English language AzeriNews, the State Department and Azerbaijan, are using the Hague exactly as it is supposed to be used by keeping children in their own family, culture and country whenever possible. Azeri children are only available for cross country adoption if an Azeri adoptive family cannot be found to adopt them. Continue Reading →
Yesterday James introduced GreenPartyAdoptionReform.com and its platform which reads in part:
Due to current laws millions of adults that were adopted as children are now being denied access to vital records regarding their births. This is a basic human right that Green Party should be committed to help in abolishing the secrets and lies that surround many adoptions around the world by creating necessary transparency between adoptees, their mothers and adoptive parents. Continue Reading →
For 60 years, the original birth certificates of Pennsylvania adoptees were available to them upon request. Up until 1985 all Pennsylvania adoptees were relinquished into an adoption system that guaranteed them the right to their own OBC. Unfortunately, the legislature that year decided to void that right retroactively, creating a legal class of citizens once permitted, then barred from owning an intimate public document about themselves that the state’s not-adopted can get for the asking. Some of those disenfranchised in 1985 may be at this hearing today. Continue Reading →
One of the worst aspects of sexual violence is being treated like a “thing” with no feelings. Those of us who were conceived by rape deal with the same issue. We are called the “product,” “rape babies,” and worse names that imply we are something less-than-human. By suggesting that it is acceptable to strip us of a right that every other PA citizen enjoys, not only contributes to this myth but is an endorsement of discrimination. All of this based on the idea that a fraction of relinquishing mothers may not want to know their children? Continue Reading →
Late Thursday night I learned that Pennsylvania HB 162, a clean bill to restore the right of OBC access to Pennsylvania adoptees, may be in trouble. Last October the bill passed the House 197-0 and seemed to have pretty clear sailing in the Senate where a committee vote is scheduled for March 18. Suddenly the Catholic Bishops, ACLU, and a cranky clerk of courts, heretofore asleep at the wheel, noticed that adoptees are poised to appear uninvited and unannounced on the doorstep of cowering but brave birthparents across the state, and something had to be done to stop this travesty. Continue Reading →
If CHIFF has attempted to render you invisible though, banning, blocking, and removing you opinion on the Children in Families First Facebook page, on Twitter @ CHIFFforKids or on other public forums operated by CHIFF backers, please post your name. the name of the page or forum that has banned you, and any comments you’d like to share here. Your information will be posted here, unless you specifically ask that your name not be made public. It will remain on file though. Continue Reading →
Short notice but….if your’re in the New York City area try to attend and report back! We need you! March 7, 2014 On March 7, 2014, New York Law School is holding its 11th Annual Adoption Law and Policy Conference. The hot button topic: DOMA, ICWA and CHIFF! I can feel the love now! I can’t address the DOMA and ICWA panels (except Joan Holllinger is chairing ICWA), but the CHIFF panel, officially called “International Adoption, Orphans and Vulnerable Children, the Children in Families First Act. and the Future of International Child Welfare” stars Whitney Reitz, Senior Policy Advisor on International Child Welfare to Senator Mary Landrieu (Moderator) and putative author of CHIFF Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Harvard Law School Cihld Advocay Program; major CHIFF promoter Unnamed, US Department of State representative Elizabeth Frankenberg, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Duke University We get a double dose of The Reitz. Not only is she a panelist, but the lunch keynote. Since State does not support CHIFF, I’m hoping the unnamed panelist comes on strong against.I know nothing about Prof Franenkberg and can find no reference to her in connection to CHIFF Continue Reading →