ADOPTEE RIGHTS DEMONSTRATION - EQUAL ACCESS TO BIRTH CERTIFICATES
Adopted persons, their families and friends will be gathering in NewOrleans for the National Conference of State Legislators for ademonstration on equal rights for adopted persons in the United States.
DATE: July 22, 2008
TIME: 9:00 am
DEMONSTRATION LOCATION: Lafayette Square Park New Orleans.
The demonstration will begin at Lafayette Square Park marching 8 blocks tothe National Conference of State Legislators being held at the ErnestN. Morial Convention Center ( 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans)
WEB SITE FOR DEMONSTRATION: http://www.adopteerights.net
In the United States only six states (Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Maine,New Hampshire and Oregon) allow adopted persons access to their original birth certificates. We believe that it is discriminatory to legally withhold personal information and documents from citizens thatall other tax-paying voting citizens are entitled to.Nowhere on any adoption contract or in any legislation is it written that an adopted person can not possess their original birthcertificate or why the birth certificate is withheld from the adoptee.
Opposition to adopted persons possessing their original birthcertificates will present legally unsupported claims that a relinquishing mother has the right to privacy and to be protected fromher daughter or son relinquished to adoption, therefore allowing amother a lifetime of privacy and anonymity. This is discrimination. Relinquishing mothers do not seal their children's original birthcertificates - the original birth certificates are sealed by state governments.
The participants of the demonstration believe that every citizen ofthe United States should be treated equally. To do otherwise is discrimination. We would like all remaining states to introduce legislation that will allow adopted persons in the United Statesaccess to their original birth certificates.We encourage your reporters to cover this story and event to help us bring public awareness to this demonstration in New Orleans.
Media contacts for New Orleans Demonstration
Kali Coultas
805 500-5317 (pst)
Cell: 805 607-2704
withoutatribe@ yahoo.com
Michelle Edmunds
516 593-2753 (est)
Cell: 516 263-1556
michelle.edmunds@ gmail.com
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
The Myth: adoption is for children
Too much money and too many adult emotional needs are put ahead of the needs of children.
These images by The Indian Association For Promotion Of Adoption & Child Welfare explore the reality of many adoptions. Though the ads are intended to show the rewards of adoption, the images do more to debunk the myth that adoption is for children. Too many American adoptions are about fulfilling the wants and desires of needy couples and/or filling the pockets of the attorneys.
If adoption were about the children, then nearly every infant born would be with the woman who carried him/her because the proper supports and helps would have been in place to prevent any need for adoption. Any close look at domestic infant adoption will reveal too many cases of temporary illness and struggle or flat out coercion.
These images by The Indian Association For Promotion Of Adoption & Child Welfare explore the reality of many adoptions. Though the ads are intended to show the rewards of adoption, the images do more to debunk the myth that adoption is for children. Too many American adoptions are about fulfilling the wants and desires of needy couples and/or filling the pockets of the attorneys.
If adoption were about the children, then nearly every infant born would be with the woman who carried him/her because the proper supports and helps would have been in place to prevent any need for adoption. Any close look at domestic infant adoption will reveal too many cases of temporary illness and struggle or flat out coercion.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Florida Adoption Council
In this post , I reference the Florida Adoption Council, Inc. My research was not complete, and I apologize to readers of this blog.
What I should have added at that time is the fact that Patricia Strowbridge owns part (or all) of the Council; thus, an individual who profits from adoption has set up this "nonprofit" organization that is supposed to educate and help set legislation for the State of Florida. Intersting.
What I should have added at that time is the fact that Patricia Strowbridge owns part (or all) of the Council; thus, an individual who profits from adoption has set up this "nonprofit" organization that is supposed to educate and help set legislation for the State of Florida. Intersting.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Adoptions are NOT all VOLUNTARY or ETHICALly managed
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically mangaged, then mothers like Allison Quets wouldn't fight for more than two years and spend close to one million dollars.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, mothers like Catherine Ristow would not win Supreme Court reprimands against attornies who are married to judges, as in Patricia Strowbridge, Executive Director of A Chosen Child.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, mothers like Jamie Kiefer would not have to resort to taking their children back at gun point.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, mothers like Cindy Ross Jordan would not be so emotionally tortured that they would take their own lives.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, women like Susan Burns would not be mothers and writing books (be sure to review the comments) about how to efficiently take children from other mothers.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, mothers like Catherine Ristow would not win Supreme Court reprimands against attornies who are married to judges, as in Patricia Strowbridge, Executive Director of A Chosen Child.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, mothers like Jamie Kiefer would not have to resort to taking their children back at gun point.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, mothers like Cindy Ross Jordan would not be so emotionally tortured that they would take their own lives.
If relinquishments were always voluntary and ethically managed, women like Susan Burns would not be mothers and writing books (be sure to review the comments) about how to efficiently take children from other mothers.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Adoption is about PROFIT
The Florida Adoption Council has a lobbyist. What is the job of a lobbyist for a nonprofit organization? What does Jon E. Johnson do with his time? Who pays him? Where does money to pay him come from if adoption is nonprofit?
http://www.floridalobbyistdirectory.com/Principal.aspx?id=1754 If adoption is nonprofit, why are there adoption lobbyists?
http://www.floridalobbyistdirectory.com/Principal.aspx?id=1754 If adoption is nonprofit, why are there adoption lobbyists?
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Adoption is not promoted in the Bible
I have been called unChristian because of my opposition to unethical/illegal adoptions, yet I find tremendous support in the Bible for my stance.
Adoption itself is NOT promoted in the Bible. In fact, caring for and supporting biological parents IS promoted in the Bible.
Job 22: 5
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless? You demanded security from your brothers for no reason; you stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked. You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry, though you were a powerful man, owning land--an honored man, living on it. And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
It is the Christian's responsibility to care for the poor and sick...and many mothers meet this criteria in American adoption situations. Women who are poor and feel they have no resources to raise children? The Christian's responsibility is to provide resources, not convince them to relinquish. Wealth is not a criteria for parenting, yet adoption in America makes wealth out to be important. It is the Christian's responsibility to offer caring, compassion, and respite to the sick.
And contested adoptions are outright sin on the part of prospective adoptive parents. Why do I say this?
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow.
To withhold a child from his/her parents is a tremendous injustice.
What else is one to make from these Old Testament quotes? The New Testament is full of the words of Christ stating to care for those who need it.
Adoption itself is NOT promoted in the Bible. In fact, caring for and supporting biological parents IS promoted in the Bible.
Job 22: 5
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless? You demanded security from your brothers for no reason; you stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked. You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry, though you were a powerful man, owning land--an honored man, living on it. And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
It is the Christian's responsibility to care for the poor and sick...and many mothers meet this criteria in American adoption situations. Women who are poor and feel they have no resources to raise children? The Christian's responsibility is to provide resources, not convince them to relinquish. Wealth is not a criteria for parenting, yet adoption in America makes wealth out to be important. It is the Christian's responsibility to offer caring, compassion, and respite to the sick.
And contested adoptions are outright sin on the part of prospective adoptive parents. Why do I say this?
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow.
To withhold a child from his/her parents is a tremendous injustice.
What else is one to make from these Old Testament quotes? The New Testament is full of the words of Christ stating to care for those who need it.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Welcome
Welcome to Adoption in America: Debunking Myths.
I am a researcher and writer who has, in the last year, realized that adoption in America is not what it is said to be. Adoption has changed, morphed, distorted from a practice to protect orphans and give them a home and permanence: adoption is seldom like this in 2007.
Adoption has become about providing children to those who can afford to pay the adoption lawyers and adoption industry.
Adoption should be about providing homes for children, not children to homes that can afford to pay for them.
I am currently gathering data to present here. Please feel free to comment and add links.
I am a researcher and writer who has, in the last year, realized that adoption in America is not what it is said to be. Adoption has changed, morphed, distorted from a practice to protect orphans and give them a home and permanence: adoption is seldom like this in 2007.
Adoption has become about providing children to those who can afford to pay the adoption lawyers and adoption industry.
Adoption should be about providing homes for children, not children to homes that can afford to pay for them.
I am currently gathering data to present here. Please feel free to comment and add links.
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