ADOPTION FACTS :
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 Adoption Facts (What the adoption agencies and adoption attorneys won't tell you.)

Ninety-nine percent of adoption-related material on the Internet and in bookstores is written and/or published by the adoption industry and its customers. After all, they are the ones who historically have benefitted from adoption. Adoptees and exiled parents have been silenced by the stigma of their roles.

Here you can read "the other side of the story": the truth about adoption written by people who don't have either a vested financial interest in promoting it or justifying it as their means of enlarging their families. We are volunteers. Unlike adoption agencies and industry advertisers such as Adoption.Com, we have no financial interest in adoption. We just want to ensure the truth can be heard.

"Fast Track" Adoption Ends in Suicide

Damage from Adoption:

1. The Damage to Mothers • The Damage to Our Babies
2. Effects of Adoption on Mental Health of the Mother - What They Knew and Didn't Tell Us.
3. Grief and Disenfranchised Grief
4. Psychological Disability in Exiled Mothers
5. "WHY won't my natural mother meet me?"
6. Dear Birthmother: What The Baby Brokers Won't Tell You About Adoptees and the Truth.
7. Bachrach's Study: How Pro-Adoption Organizations Twist the Facts
8. Psychology of Adoption - Quotes from Professionals (NEW)

The Adoption Industry:

1. Adoption FAQ - Myths and Facts
2. Should I Give Up My Baby For Adoption?
3. Considering Surrogacy or Donating Your Eggs?
4. Open Adoption, Infant Adoption, Domestic Adoption - Pros and Cons
5. Adoption in Canada: In WHOSE Best Interests?
6. The Adoption Industry
7. Independent Adoption, Private Adoption Agencies - Pros and Cons
8. Adoption Statistics - from CERA
9. Ethical Adoption Agencies - How Can I Find One?
10. Common Coercion Methods Used on "Unwed" Mothers
11. Current Adoption Policy and Practice - a Comparison between North America and Australia by Evelyn Robinson, MA, Dip Ed, BSW
12. "Standard Hospital Procedure" - A Report from Kansas
13. The Industry: What The Customers Say
14. The Lies of CAS (Children's Aid Society),
15. OPEN ADOPTION - The Lies of Open Adoption
16. Identified Adoption - What is it?
17. Human Rights Abuses - Then and Now
18. EXPLOITATION? What Is It?
19. What the Customers Say
20. California Social Wreckers: The Grand Jury's Findings
21. How Adoption in America Grew Secret, by Elizabeth Samuels
22. RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON ADOPTION
23. Why Adoption Records CLOSED
24. Why "Birthmother" Means BREEDER
25. Why The Media Hates Us
26. An FAQ About This Website
27. "What About Abortion Rates?" Response to a Guestbook Question
    

Adoption vs. Abortion (Myths Debunked)

Changing The System: What YOU Can Do!

Who Cares about Keeping THIS Family Together?

"Considering Adoption" Brochure - Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Considering Adoption 

Choosing Adoptive Parents - A Mother's Advice

Adoption "Triad"???

"Crisis" Pregnancy?

Adoption Agency Testimonials - "Birthmothers" Response

Open Adoption vs. Closed Adoption vs. "Parenting"

Honest Questions About Adoption - Are They Insensitive?

Prejudice Against "Unwed" Teenage Mothers - Most statements made about "unwed" mothers or teenage mothers are sweeping generalizations, based more on prejudice than reality.

Child Trafficking, Slavery and Domestic Infant Adoption - even if it's not child trafficking and is only a "mild" form of slavery, domestic infant adoption sure leaves family members suffering.

"Failed Adoption" and "Birthmother Scams" - What is the preventative solution that protects adoptive people, parents and children?

Newspaper Articles:

1. "Adoption Anguish - Listen to Jacque Kenney Guinan's story of how she reluctantly gave up her son 34 years ago, and it is easy to understand why she battled depression for decades, and why she is no fan of adoption.
2. "Robbing the Cradle" - some fundamentalist-run pregnancy centers are no longer satifisfied talkign women out of abortion. Now they want the babies.

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   Note: The terms "unwed" mother, "birthmother", "birthmom", "birthmoms", "dear birthparent", "birthparent", "birthparents", "birthfather" "biological" make a parent appear to be less than the mother or father they are. These terms dehumanize and limit the parent's role to that of an incubator. Using the honest terms "mother", "single mother" or "natural mother" help the public to understand why real family members must not be separated to obtain babies for adoption.