Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry
"The Giver" is a children's fiction book - science fiction. I first heard of this book from a friend who is an adoptee. She was horrified by the description of the moms ("birthmothers") having the job of producing a baby each year for three years as a job and then being "retired" to other duties. "Birthmother" was a job title, just like "Assistant Director of Recreation".
The newborn babies were kept apart from society for a while to determine whether they were "acceptable". If they were, then they were allocated to "parents" - one male and one female child was allocated to each set of "parents". If a child died, then they would be allocated a "replacement" child WITH THE SAME NAME.
There were no feelings - even the "parents" did not choose each other and neither did they have sex. When the kids were grown, they no longer had need of a "family unit" and so it would be completely dissolved. Thus there were no Grandparents and nothing called "love".
Sadly, this is not far from the state of things in America today. Thursday March 31st, 2005 NewsChannel5 reported: "Grandparents who care for their grandchildren soon may need a license."
How long until parents themselves need to be licensed foster care providers - and then how long after that will all babies simply be removed at birth?
We already have solicitation for babies for adoption and government-funded infant adoption awareness training designed to separate moms and their newborns.
Some adopted persons say heritage is a human right. Yet, we allow production of human beings from "donated" human eggs and sperm. Who will protect children and protect families? Will children of the future know what a "Grandparent" is?
Posted at 08:49 pm by warriorwoman
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Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Sisters movie shows how women were locked up in the Magdalene Laundries - sometimes for life - to attone for their sexual sins. If they were pregnant, their babies were taken for adoption.
Look at the Magdalene Laundries website - they are seeking justice for these women who were so ill-treated. They have set up memorials.
Just imagine if we set up similar memorials in the United States for the women who were interred in maternity homes and had their infant sons and daughters taken for adoption.
Perhaps the saddest thing is that it is the year 2005 and we have a President (George W. Bush) who is promoting maternity homes so they can get more babies. We have adoption agencies and adoption attorneys who use "open" adoption and promises of pictures, letters and sometimes continuing contact to lure women into surrendering their own children so others may adopt.
Many groups - infertile Christians, the mentally ill, singles and gays - claim a "right to adopt".
We have people soliciting to get other people's children to use as if the kids were their own. How diseased is that? If a mother and father "just don't want" their child, it would not require so much advertising and effort to get their children away from them.
Posted at 10:56 am by warriorwoman
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Pregnancy and Adoption Issues
Pregnancy Issues and Adoption Issues
When a child has no parent or adult relative who is able and willing to care for her, then finding a good person to care for her makes sense. The best person to care for the child should be found, not the most moneyed, infertile or deceptively friendly person.
Sadly, today in United States, "adoption" too often means finding a healthy baby for adults to "purchase" for their own. Some people enact legislation to get more people to abandon babies. Or else adoption agencies and adoption attorneys advertise to "find" a naive or vulnerable mother. Then they tell the mother she will be a hero or a saint if she will only provide "the baby" to some infertile or gay person. "The baby" is her own beloved son or daughter.
According to statistics reported by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, moms whose children are adopted-out often come from intact families of higher socioeconomic status. (Stolley, 1993) Moms are usually between 17 and 24 years old, in college or college-bound. These are not women who would require public assistance long, if at all. Many are simply naive and do not know much about adoption and how the loss of their child will affect them - or how a baby might be affected being separated from her mother at birth.
Moms (and Dads) you are not "birth things". You are the mother and father of your own child and you do not owe your child to anyone.
Birthmother's Day Commentary
Why Some People are not Celebrating Adoption
Posted at 01:29 pm by warriorwoman
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