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Do
not adopt. Fight for legislation for adoption alternatives
such as shared-family care, kinship care, and guardianship.
Join
an organization such
as
Origins,
OriginUSA
or Origins Canada
Support
your son or daughter in keeping their baby. Celebrate
the new life they are bringing into the family. Don't
let your grandchild be lost to adoption!
Encourage
adoptees to search for
their natural parents. Encourage governments to open
up adoption records and eliminate "disclosure vetos."
Write
to your local newspapers, letters to the editor, tell your
story to your favorite columnist in the women's section, tell
your story to the political editor in connection with state
efforts to pass Open Records legislation.
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