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| | | Pamela
September 30, 2008 08:47 PM PDT
Wow, what a great post. Something everyone needs to read. I think people in general are a bit to lax about adoption. They are promiscuous and think, well I can always get an abortion or give "it" up for adoption. If they only knew how hard it really was to watch someone walk out with your baby... Amazing article.
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July 18, 2007 07:36 AM PDT
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| | | Happy G'Ma
April 6, 2007 06:44 AM PDT
"What I Wish I Knew When I Was Considering Adoption" is brilliant. My daughter was 5 months pregnant and unmarried. She is a bright, happy, healthy college girl. She made the mistake of going to a "crisis" pregnancy center for advice and those adoption predators were after her big time. Reading this article saved our family from making the horrible mistake of giving up a beloved family member. Instead our baby and daughter are right where they belongs - with us.
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December 22, 2006 09:10 PM PST
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Stork mar·ket. (stôrk märkt) n. 1. exposé of the corruption in the adoption industry; the fine line between black and gray market adoption; scams, coercion and exploitation. 2. an in-depth report on the international market where children are the commodity being bought and sold to the highest bidders including pedophiles with prices based on quality (i.e. age, skin color) of the merchandise and set as high as ‘desperate’ consumers continue to be willing to pay. 3. an examination of the myths of adoption that put the needs of adults, and those who profit from their desperation, before the needs of children who need homes. 4. an extensively researched and documented book that asks if adoption can be fixed -— the money aspect removed and government controls and regulations put in place -— or abolished in favor of permanent guardianship, or informal adoption sans the issuance of falsified birth certificates. 5. goes further than Riben’s groundbreaking, award-winning “shedding light on…The Dark Side of Adoption” (1988) which was excerpted in Social Issues Review Series, Utne Reader and Microcosm USA. 7. reveals, for the first time in print, Riben’s role in the notorious Joel Steinberg murder case.
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“Riben has done it again. Once again, as in Dark Side, she has pulled back the covers and exposed the unpleasant truths and problems that need to be addressed in American adoption practices. While difficult, when we remove the rose-colored glasses many view adoption through, the conclusions that Riben comes to are inarguable. Most impressive on every count….well researched and thought out.” Annette Baran, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., co-author The Adoption Triangle
Mirah Riben writes that she refuses to give up. This book -— a wonderful and well-integrated mix of approaches—part analysis, part case studies from the front lines, part handbook, part up-to-date law and policy review -— is a testament to Riben's powerful and enduring commitment to the rights and needs of vulnerable women and their children. Riben's book is a clear, bright blueprint for change. Rickie Solinger, historian and author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
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| | | Greg
August 25, 2006 04:41 PM PDT
I'm looking for Marsha M. regarding Judy Knowlton's possible relationship to Dr. William Aryres and the molestation complaint that Child Protective Services received in 1987. I'm the boy the comlpaint was filed on behalf of and Judy Knowlton's name is all over my copies of the original report. If you have any information please e-mail me at LoserFriendly07@aol.com | |
| | | Kim
November 16, 2005 06:33 PM PST
I think from reading the disappointed mom's comments that she wasn't the best person to be in that situation. It might have been more effective to have family support and kept the original family together although with drug abuse this is very difficult. But not all adoption situations involve a useless drug addict mother, and you do have useless alcoholic adoptive mothers too.
I think the best solution is early intervention and family support and better facilities to help people with to recover from the disease of addiction. | |
| | | Disappointed Mom
October 27, 2005 12:13 AM PDT
10-27-2005 I adopted a little boy years ago. He was placed with me at age 2, after being in two foster homes. I consented to an open adoption because his birth mother otherwise would not relinquish, even though he was 4 years old by the time it went to court. This was a disaster, because half the time she didn't show up for her once a year pre-Christmas visit. When he was 7 or 8, he demanded to see more of her, and suddenly they were having a honeymoon. I didn't think this was a good idea, but he'd kick holes in my walls if I refused to let him visit. After a summer of this, she could not hide her drug and alcohol problem anymore and he saw things that made him not want to see her again except for a day visit once or twice a year.
At age 13 he started smoking weed, drinking, and pretty much hasn't studied since then. AT 14 he began threatening and hitting me when he couldn't get his way. I hit him back once and left a bruise, and Child Protective Services came out and gave me a hard time. He'd been in counseling since he was 7 and there was nothing they could offer us other than to lecture me not to let things get out of hand. Even when he threatened to kill me, his counselor didn't take it seriously. It wasn't until he made threats to kill strangers that he was hospitalized for two months. He was almost as bad when released, and all the boarding schools were too expensive for me or would not take him for his history of ADHD, bipolar illness, firesetting and homicidal ideation, and drug dealing and abuse.
I lost my job and sold my house because the stress from dealing with him made it too hard for me to work full time. I live very reclusively in an apartment now, nap daily, and have learned how to avoid most of the landmines of his temper. Not all however, as the police have been out here twice this year and he's had one hospitalization in 2005. When he turns 18, if I last that long, I'm moving. I used to think I wouldn't tell him where, but he's so addicted to the streets that he wouldn't follow me anyway. This makes me feel guilty because I know in my heart that he'll be dead within weeks from living in the streets. He's already had other juveniles attempt to kill him, because he has a gift for pissing off people whereever he goes.
I've put up with his abuse and not abandoned him because I have another younger child and did not want child protective services to take her out of revenge if I left him on their doorstep. She's adopted too, and as sane, decent and pleasant as a human being can be. A psychiatrist once told me that adoption is a roll of the dice. I got one kid who's antisocial and moody like his birth parents, and another kid who couldn't be more lovely and normal. Nix open adoptions if at all possible, as I do believe that it had a significant negative impact on his personality when younger, even if it means giving up a chance to adopt a particular child. | |
| | | Matthew Bell
August 16, 2005 06:20 AM PDT
Adoption is a contentious topic, but nevertheless in the world of impotence and underlying problems, it is a blessing for childless couples who long for parental bliss. Difference of cultures makes matters difficult for the prospective parents as well as the kid who is going to change his total outlook on life. poverty is the biggest reason, but those unfortunate orphans on the other hand, who have no future but in orphanages, benefit from adoption.
Always keep in mind to investigate the standing of the orphanage or childrens home where you go for adopting a child, and try to mix in with the kid, so that you can know him/her better. | |
| | | Name marsha M
July 20, 2005 10:37 AM PDT
I would like to tell about a woman called Judy Knowlton who lives in San Mateo
county. This woman used her position as
a social worker for many years to procure
babies for adoptive parents for $50.000
or more. She was a co-worker of mine
and I want the world to know! | |
| | | Name marsha M
July 20, 2005 10:36 AM PDT
I would like to tell about a woman called Judy Knowlton who lives in San Mateo
county. This woman used her position as
a social worker for many years to procure
babies for adoptive parents for $50.000
or more. She was a co-worker of mine
and I want the world to know! | |
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