Blog for and about teen mothers
I was sent a link by the creator of this awesome website: Prymfacehas support and information for and about teen mothers.
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Where's Your Daddy Gone?
I don't remember my father, or at least I don't think I do, sometimes I think I have shadowy memories of him but other times I think those are just memories of memories, All I have of him is one...
View ArticleWitness
I think one of the reasons adoption damage goes so deep is because we have no one to acknowledge our pain. So very few people are willing to hear us, or willing to acknowledge our grief and loss our...
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seven year old boy sent back to Russia by adoptive parent
Artem (Artyom) Saveliev/Artyom Justin Hansen's adoptive mother decided she didn't want him so put him on a plane back to Russia With him traveled a letter that readThe fact that the child has...
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Banking up or burning out: using the fire wisely
In the process of survival and struggle we have to learn to love ourselves as much as we love the causes we fight for Pratibha ParmarThe week before Easter I came to a screeching halt, my body just...
View ArticleAdoption and Class: Personal Reflections
I read the first essay: A Question of Class in Dorothy Allisons Skin about five times and every single time I read it I cried. it bought home some sharp hard truths about the fact that my adoptive...
View ArticleThe myth of the nuclear family and lack of the imagination
I don't talk about my feelings around adoption much off line, when I do its only to very close friends who I trust and who I know understand where I'm coming from. Online? I talk about it loads and the...
View ArticleFraudulent adoptions
1)I have no sympathy for the adoptive parents, child trafficking and kidnapping has been going on for years in regard to international adoption, if they were so desperate for somebody else s child that...
View ArticleHappy new year! happy new blog!
Soo, This is my new adoption blog. I'm not sure yet exactly what I'm going to post here, rantings, musings, memories, posts talking about the politics of adoption and reproductive justice issues,...
View ArticleOver medication of children in foster care
Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.Sometimes life damages us so badly that we will be on medication forever, but most of the money that is spent on medicating kids in foster care should be...
View ArticleI am...
I am a "bad" adoptee, I am an "ungrateful" adoptee, I am an "angry" adoptee, I am a "well, my children wont grow up to be like you" adoptee, I am a "but your adoptive parents gave you so much" adoptee,...
View ArticleThe Huffington Post: The baby trade
John Feffer wrote the article The Baby Trade back in December.He talks about the personal and global impact of the poisoned underbelly of adoption, of the child trafficking, child abduction, identity...
View Article"Adoption Awareness night"
We're so family orientedyeah if those families are respectable middle class white people with enough moneyThere is nothing in that clip suggesting that adoption might be less than easy, might be...
View ArticleDream Big
On Martin Luther King day Liberty over at May I Have a Word wrote about how her dream was:...that one day there will be no foster kids.She goes on to describe what that would mean. I have that dream...
View ArticleUpdate on the latest Russian adoptee abuse case
From the St Petersburg TimesCOLD BATHS, TABASCO SAUCE SPARK U.S. ADOPTION DISPUTEBy Natalya KrainovaThe St. Petersburg TimesPublished: January 26, 2011 (Issue # 1640)MOSCOW — Russian authorities are...
View Articleso you'd give that kid away if you birthed it?
Groan in my heart has a guest post on adoption disruption, giving an adopted child away because he didn't fit the mould you invented for him. We are THAT familylinda writes an excelent post in...
View ArticleGrandparents need more support
An article in The Guardian last week exposes just how little social services seems to care about family presevation.Helen Collett writes about how she had been her grandchildren's carers for the past...
View ArticleWell this never happens..
I really like this post written by an adoptive mother. Especialy the bit I've quoted belowWhat I am discovering on this long and winding journey is that different does not mean bad or less or not as...
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The thing about gratitude...
Before I found other adoptees online I thought that my adoptive parents constant admonitions to be grateful to them, grateful for all they had done for me, grateful for all they had sacrificed for me,...
View ArticleClosing the world down: Disadvantaged familes receive less and less support,
David Cameron in his wisdom has invented something he calls "the big society" which roughly translated means "we are going to spend as little money on social/community support as possible because you...
View ArticleAdoptive parents are selfish idiots part infinity
Recently a new computer game Portal 2 was released. It contains taunting that the protagonist is fat, stupid, and adopted. This seems unnecessary, thoughtless and hurtful all round. I don’t think we...
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