http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/ Adoption Issues and Family Matters Thu, 23 Jun 2005 06:20:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Family Issues Parenting Liberal http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/74.html Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:16:10 GMT Considering Adoption? This is the best information on considering adoption I've seen: What I Wish I Knew When I Was Considering Adoption I think carefully considering adoption and it's effects will help those parents-to-be and grandparents-to-be to determine what a lifetime without your child or watching some stranger raise your child - really means. Many parents today are being lured into "open" adoption. It's important to understand the risks and realities of "open" adoption in advance as well. Open Adoption - The... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=74 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/72.html Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:28:49 GMT Adoptingback Website Want to hear some interesting adoption stories? Adoption, adopting babies, adopting children , infant adoption - it's not as simple as it sounds. This website is dedicated to the question of whether adult adoptees should be adopted back by their natural parents - or perhaps have their adoptions annulled. Some have already been adopted back or changed their name back. Guess the maternity homes for unwed mothers were not enough to make the babies someone they were not. Adoptingback - angels in adoption? http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=72 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/67.html Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:37:24 GMT "Donations" of Babies to the Infertile Adoption is a business venture that is currently popular - and growing. "Finding" healthy newborn babies for adoption customers is not as difficult as one might think. It just takes a little advertising - much of it paid for by the federal government - and voila! donations of healthy newborn "orphans" appear. Are these adorable babies really looking forward to having adoptive buyers take them home, thereby "saving" them from their own family? According to health experts, babies are better off if kept close to their mothers - and hospitals... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=67 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/70.html Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:19:29 GMT Considering Giving Up Baby For Adoption? There are a few things you might want to know about infertility, the causes of infertility and the effects of infertility on couples - as well as the long term effects of adoption on mothers and their adopted-out children. (If the truth be told, adoption affects kept children, future spouses and future generations as well.) Many people in United States are experiencing infertility - as the result of factors like environmental toxins, obesity, STDs, use of drugs and medications, drinking, smoking and delaying pregnancy to focus on their own... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=70 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/69.html Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:18:40 GMT Angels in Adoption Adoption is imbued with a mystical quality. Participants (willing or otherwise) are often referred to as "angels" "saints" or other terms which dehumanize them. The people who adopt are "saviors" of supposedly "unwanted" babies. The women used as a source of babies for adoption are called "angels" and "saints" prior to surrendering their beloved babies, but they quickly fall from this unnaturally elevated status once the adoption is finalized. During the closed adoption era, the moms might not have even gotten to hold their babies before they... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=69 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/68.html Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:02:12 GMT "Birthmother" Humor Regarding "birthmother" humor - I found a website with some humorous articles written by Joss Shawyer (a mother who narrowly escaped "birth objecthood" in 1969). Granted- it's a sort of tongue-in-cheek black humor - but the articles are GREAT - and very revealing! I've listed a few of the articles below. When you read the title "birthmother" humor were you thinking I was about to make fun of "birthmothers"? I'm NOT - I would never put down a human being who has been used as if she were not a mother but only a machine producing babies for people to... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=68 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/66.html Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:18:39 GMT "Unwanted" Babies for Adoption In United States there is a large market for babies for adoption and few real orphans to be found that are young and healthy enough to be desirable for adoption. The lack of healthy orphan babies is no impediment to the adoption industry - when their customers have money, then babies can be "found". The babies are often said to be "unwanted" - a veritable "crisis". Do moms really think of their infant sons and daughters are like some old junky sofa to be donated? One "birthmother" website states: “Adoption is not about unwanted babies — it is... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=66 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/64.html Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:04:30 GMT Gadgets and Babies for Adoption What's the difference between a gadget (such as a phone with Blutooth, a camera and high-speed data capabilities) and a baby for adoption? The gadget of the desired specifications can almost always be purchased immediately - and easily returned if the customer is not fully satisfied. A human baby might take anywhere from a month to a year to obtain - perhaps longer, depending on the specifications of the baby and the budget of the customer. Regardless, the time seems like an eternity to a consumer who is used to immediate gratification. Those... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=64 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/65.html Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:34:09 GMT Embryo Adoption and Pope Benedict XVI An open letter to the new Pope, Pope Benedict XVI. Dear Pope Benedict: I do not have your address and cannot write to you personally. I wish I could write to you - where adoption and embryo adoption are concerned. If there is an orphan who has no one then it may help her if someone takes her in and raises her with the same love they would give her if she was their own child. But in United States people are ignoring real orphans and at the same time they are turning out infant orphans on purpose just to supply the adoption market. ... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=65 http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/archive/63.html Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:45:00 GMT Adoption Baby Shortage? According to encyclopedia.adoption.com there is an "adoption baby shortage". Just seeing these words "adoption baby shortage" turns my stomach. What is adoption - a system of finding homes for orphans or a system of getting babies for people to buy? Is "adoption" just a system of creating more orphans just so people who are infertile or gay can have a baby? Evidently it is so. When babies are taken from their mothers so they can be used for adoption, the babies suffer. But it is not just the babies that suffer. This idea of creating... (more) http://warriorwoman.blogdrive.com/comments?id=63