... plenty of discussion going on in various media circles about adoptee rights, so be sure to add your two cents. Also some good discussion going on out there about ABC ... Bastardette: Find My Family ReduxAlso from Bastardette, adoptee rights comments needed: SOS! NYT ... Ancestry Because It Might Upset Somebody (includes links to media articles that need adoptee input)Musings Of The Lame: A Birthmother' ...

... had a complete melt-down on the Facebook “alt adoption” group’s discussion boards last night. Some of us have seen this behavior from her time and again over the last three years, particularly in relation to the Adoptee Rights Demonstration/Day for Adoptee Rights though usually it’s been in spaces such as ...

... laws Six Korean adoptees filed an appeal with the Anti-corruption and Civil Rights Commission last year to request a probe into irregularities in their adoption ... -fledged battle to reform adoption laws and procedures, and they’re getting help from some heavyweights. Adoptee rights and community groups as well as unwed mothers, the public interest law firm Gong-Gam and Democratic Party ...

... ever have in my life. Another thing that really struck me is the importance that she is putting on me getting my OBC. She had NO idea that it was sealed and unavailable to me, none whatsoever. I even alluded to the forum and the Adoptee Rights work that so many of my fellow adoptees are doing to unseal our records, and she seemed genuinely on board with ...

... , highly recommend. I completely trust her insights and perspective since she's also an adoptee and has lived what she counsels.)I just want adoptees to be aware that many times it's not ... by the potential adoptive parents she would have an open adoption only to find as soon as she signed over her rights, the parents disappeared with her child never to be heard from again. I'm sure there ...

As an adoptee I’m requesting Non identify information concerning my birth mother? I talked to the county I was born in today and they&# ... my husband adopt? there is something wrong here . First, the bio father cannot sign his rights over to someone else. And if you only have custody, consequently you cannot have someone adopt the child. The only way a human being can terminate their rights ...

... that is allowed all others.  Why should they be denied the right to a birth certificate which is by all rights theirs and theirs alone? Why should adoption annul the birth that preceded it? At the time of ... and suggest vetoes. Nothing new, they do that now.  Though the counter argument is that all the adoptee would gain is their original birth certificate which may be very diffcult to ...

... New York Times has focused on women's rights and on the stigma of single parenting and adoption in ... Jane Jeong Trenka, who is a Korean-born adoptee and leader of the Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community ... said flatly that “culture is not an excuse to abuse human rights.” The Times is also telling the stories of the Koreans who have been given up for adoption and ...

... fight to open closed records in her state. "I feel like it's the last civil rights struggle," she told ABCNews.com. "There is a bias toward the adopters who are looked on as saviors. They are the ones that get attention at the expense of the adoptee and their birth relatives. We don't count." Without her original birth certificate, Warshaw, ...