NAAM Day 27 :Oh No! Am I Writing Adoption Poetry?

So here’s the catch.  I am going over my new stuff and suddenly I see a pattern that screams adoptee dysfunction. Every damn poem written since Soier died carries the theme of disengagement: disembodiment: memory, forgetfulness, remembrance, history, identity, the loss of identity; identity switches, twinning.  It’s shocking, but at least it’s not nostalgic. Exactly. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 25: Adopted Woman Speaks Out; Haters Hate on Her, Part 2: The Language of Adoptaphobia and Hate. (Quotes Included)

The shitstorm response Pellecuer received, however, far exceeds anything I have ever seen or heard. According to my computer when I hit the print key, Pellecuer had received 81 pages of adoptee-hating, racist, nativist, and misogynist hate-filled  clap backs. 81 pages!  I did not print them out. but read every one of them. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 24: Adopted Woman Speaks Out; Haters Hate on Her. Part 1

Pellecuer, now 46, is from Madagascar. Her mother died when she was 7 and she was adopted at age 10 by a white  couple in southern France. She does not say much about her adoptive parents, (despite what her “critics” claim)  but her relationship with them, or rather what they read into her statements, is what got them to run for their hoods and pitchforks  Things like: Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 23: Monica Kelsey Receives Awards for Implementing Humanitarian Baby Abandonment

Within the last 6 weeks, Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc  Founder/CEO Monica Kelsey received awards for what these days passes for humanitarian service. That is, encouraging girls and women to conceal pregnancies, forego pre and post-natal care and safe delivery, and the dump and run anonymous “legalized” newborn-abandonment-by box-in-the-firehouse-wall schemes she is attempting  to sweep across the country. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 22: Unintended Consequences: Nutbar Joel Webbon’s Violent Plan to End Immigration Could Kill IntercountryAdoption

. He wants the US to shoot migrants approaching Trump’s “wall.” (apparently on the Mexican side) calling it a “more merciful option.” The murders of the few that get their heads blown off, which he calls “Biblical justice” would actually be an instrument of family preservation: Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 21: Here We Go Again! Why is a Safe Haven Baby Box Considered an “Act of Love”

How is erasing your child’s identity, history, family, and community from the world, sticking them in an origininless, histsoryless black hole that they cannot climb out of an act of “great love?” Continue Reading →

NAAM DAY #20: Welcome “Adoption” the Newest Addition to the Bad Adoptee Film Genre. More Evil than “Orphan?”

If they hear about it, this film will strike the sensitive adopter class and their adoption industry saviors worse than did the 2009 film Orphan, which today might pale in comparison to this new addition to the Bad Adoptee Genre. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 18: What Kind of Adoption Agency Allows This?

Today, Lila Rose, founder of LiveAction kicked off a discussion on how her 3 kids are hardly enough and she wants to have a lot more. She likes to point out that money should never be an issue whether you are discussing a first child or the 12th. There is always enough $$$ to go around. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 15: Baby Box Adoption Surrenders are Dignified?

What in the world is “dignified” for a mother sneaking around in the middle of the night and sticking a secret baby into a hidy-hole at the fire station and running off? And what kind of dignity does that baby have being ditched, possibly naked (sometimes with a placenta hanging on it or covered in God knows what) with maybe not even a blanket–and certainly no name or history?  Continue Reading →