NaBloPoMoing Through Adoption 2012

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Against my better judgement, I’ve signed on for November 2012 open topic NaBloPoMo .   That is I’ll post a blog every day–in this case for National Adoption Awareness Month–for the month of November. I say better judgement, because since I’ve been forced back into the workforce, I have limited time to do much of anything but work and sleep.  My work schedule is not normal. One day I start at 3 AM and work until whenever the job is done; the next day I start at 9 PM and work until 2  AM.  It’s reaked havoc on sleep, eating, and anything normal people do. All for half of  the hourly rate I made when I left the Ohio State Univeresity 14 years ago–and working half the hours. I’m not going to write about the job other than to say that as a “professional” inventory counter, I’ve got a great view of the decline of America via consumer culture and goods. Did you know that Hanes now makes underwear in Haiti? And don’t get me started on party stores, Ollie’s, and worst of all–Victoria’s Secret panty tables.  . ****** But I digress… National Adoption Awareness Month is the creature of Continue Reading →

Demons of Adoption Ballot: 2012.

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 The nominations are in! So many demons! Only one can win!  The nominees for this year’s edition of Demons of Adoption  are: The Christian Post: for running several mind bendingly biased articles about intercountry adoption; Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute: for giving their seal of approval to persons and organizations that promote the interests of the adoption industry and pushing agency friendly legislation in Congress; Celebrate Children International: for being the agency behind numerous illegal adoptions, and the agency of record for the stolen child Fernanda; Oxygen Network: for producing the absolutely horrendous show “I’m Having Their Baby.” Tasteless, manipulative, coercive, and intrusive into the lives of vulnerable women trying to cope with an unplanned pregnancy; Adam Pertman: for claiming to be a critic of the adoption system, while at the same time promoting the interest of the adoption industry; Martin Narey: for trying to speed up adoptions and make it easier to adopt, and suggesting women who want to abort should abandon; Adoption Assistance, Inc. and World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP): for their role in the adoption travesty featuring Artem Justin Hansen (Artem Saveliev) and his so-called “permanent placement” with “forever mom”, Torry Hansen, infamous Adoptive mother Continue Reading →

Nominations Open: 6th Annual Demons of Adoption Awards

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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 →

Race, Religion and Rescjue in Adoption Conference

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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 →

I’m Having Their Baby: Bowling for Babies Redux

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(Note: Since I changed formats, spacing has become an issue in some posts, and I can’t get it fixed)  Since I was forced back into the job market at a time when most people my age have already retired, it’s been difficult to find time to sit down and blog. After 4-10 hours+ of manual labor, the likes of which I haven’t done in 45 years, the mind numbs  thoughts of the blogosphere. But, sometimes enough is enough and the adrenalin kicks in..\To wit:  I’m Having Their Baby, Oxygen Network’s  new  voyeur docu where titillated couch consumers and Snooki fans get to watch adoption agents and their clueless customers, ie PAPs, vie for the attention and ultimate product of  pregos in trouble and  need of social engineering.. There’s not been such an uproar in AdoptionLand since Orphan hit the big screen when adoption agents, their industrial hangers-on, Christian orphan savers, politicians, paps and adopters hit the keyboards over Hollywood’s “destruction of adoption.” Bastards and birthers found the whole business amusing. I’ll be blogging more about I’m Having Their Baby (at least I plan to), but in the meantime I want to remind people that the concept of the show is Continue Reading →

Happy Father’s Day to My Three Dads!

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On this Fathers Day, I’m posting some pictures of  my three dads (in chronological order) I still can’t find my pictures of Jack, but I do have a few. . I’ve got lots of pictures of my adoptive dad, Charlie  and one of Mama Dot’s husband Jack. Ahey were  fine men and I miss them all. In 2005 I wrote a Fathers Day piece My Two Dads for both of them.   My  memorial to Jack is here. ****** JACK REESE, August 16, 1927 –  December 28, 2010 Jack in preppy drag, c 1947 Jack about 2008 The man’s man until the end CHARLIE GREINER, September 2, 1912 – August 24, 1977 Baby Charles c early 1913 Baby Charles, Grandmother Del Campbell Greiner, brother Hiram Boone Baby Charles and Lemmie Salem Jr High School, c 1924 Seriously dorky picture, Culver Summer School, 1929 New York Military Academy, 1931 The night they raided Minsky’s? Life before me  Didn’t everybody have a family bar? Was this in the home study? Life with me.  Warren, Ohio BOB CAMPBELL, July 28, 1924 – November 19, 1997 Bob as I knew him.  A good man

Los Ninos Robados: Spain’s Catholic Church accused of selling thousands of newborns into adoption

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I‘ve been busy working on the new Bastard Nation webpage.  We lost quite a bit of material in the crash and burn, and I’m trying to reconstruct, but the more I get ahead, the further I get behind. At the rate I’m going it will be a year before it’s finished. (Note:  some paragraph breaks below are double, but there is nothing in the html to indicate why).  ****** One of my tasks is beefing up the International page–the section that lists activist, search and support websites around the world.  I have added a category  for each country, when appropriate, on”child laundering,” covering news on sealed records, forced and illegal adoptions, and any other corrupt activity the state, private industry and church can devise individually or in partnership. Sor Maria Gomzez Valbuena going to court One of the latest scandals,  Los  Ninos Robados (The Stolen Children). involves  illegal child removal and black market ops  in Spain–a complicated decades-long collusion of government, law, Catholic Church, and private industry and individuals.   Although the current  scandal broke in the Spanish press in 2008, stories of  fraudulent adoption have circulated  in the press and public for years.  In 1982, for instance, nun and social worker Sor Maria Gómez Valbuena was Continue Reading →

Adoption Mystique Now in eBook!

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Good news!  The Kindle version of the adoption class Adoption Mystique by Joanne Wolf Small, has just been released. You can find Nook here. By way of review, here is what I wrote about the 2007 re-issue with new material, of the original 2004 edition. …a book that every adoptee rights activist needs to keep on the nightstand. I first ran into Joanne in 1980 when somebody gave me an article about sealed records and identities she’d written for a social work publication. It was from Joanne that I first heard the peculiar legal concept that the adoptee and natural parent(s) are “as if dead to each other.” That article stuck with me, and I credit Joanne in large part for raising my consciousness and bringing me into this strange adoptee rights “career” a decade later. But Joanne has done more than write. In 1980, she was the only adopted member of the federal Model Adoption Legislation Procedures and Advisory Panel (Model Adoption Act 1980). The panel’s sweeping recommendations, including unrestricted records for all adoptees nationwide, was a broadside on the secret adoption system. The report sent the industry into such a tizzy that Gladney formed the strong arm lobby, Continue Reading →