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If
you are looking for ways to obtain another person's child, you won't
find it here. If, however, you have lost a family member to adoption,
then this page is for you.
this
page:  support
groups
searching
for lost family black
market adoption the
open records movement
other
pages : Resources
for Exiled Mothers Resources
for Exiled Fathers Recommended
Books Ambiguous
Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief
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Support
Groups:
- Adoption
Crossroads (http://www.AdoptionCrossroads.Org).
Also a contact website for CERA (The Council for Equal
Rights in Adoption), and Joe Soll, author of the book
Adoption Healing
- ADOPTION
= LEGALIZED LIES. Telling
it like it is. Want to know the plain, unvarnished
truth about adoption? Here it is.
- Center
for Adoptee Rights
"The purpose of this site is to collect facts,
development arguments, build strategies and promote
action for the reform of U.S. adoption law. This site
is intended as a reference for activists, lawmakers,
adoption professionals and others concerned with human
rights and ethics in adoption law and practice. "
- Children
of Adoption
- Korean
Babies For Adoption - Transracial Abductees speaking
out about maternity homes and coercion to get Korean
babies for the adoption market and the challenges
for an adopted person being raised in a different
culture.
- Young
Mothers' Rights PLEASE JOIN IN OUR FIGHT TO KEEP
YOUNG MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN TOGETHER!! WE HAVE
THE PLAN, WILL YOU HELP US BUILD ON IT?
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Searching
for Lost Family:
If you are searching... please be sure to register
with the International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR).
This is a free, mutual consent registy. Send a Self-Addressed,
Stamped, #10 Envelope to: ISRR P.O. Box 2312 Carson
City, NV 89702
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WERE
YOU A VICTIM OF "BLACK MARKET"* ADOPTION?
*
Black market adoption: the sale of usually-stolen infants
by unscrupulous people to adopters
willing to do anything to obtain a baby. Many mothers
were told that their babies had died.
Black
Market Adoptee's Registry
- "Black
Market" Adoption Webring : Sites dealing
with the issue of "black market" baby brokers,
and sites of adult adoptees whose adoptions were black
market and who are in search of their original families.
- Black
Market Adoption.
An article by M. Haviland
- The
Cole Baby Registry. Cole Babies are adoptees born
in Miami, Florida, between 1927 and 1963, adopted
through Katherine M. Cole, Ruby Sutera, or Ephrain
Suarez (The Suarez Clinic). Dr. Cole allegedly falsified
names, addresses, and even the sex of the baby on
birth certificates and other documents, and may have
separated twins. If you are a birth mother and you
see a date you recognize, please contact us, even
if you believe the sex of the baby listed is incorrect.
- Adoption
Crossroads A network of over 360 adoption search/support
organizations in 8 countries. Healing weekends, support
groups, particular help for black market adoptees.
- Bessie
Bernard: Black Market Baby Broker. This site contains
info regarding Bessie Bernard, who was notorious for
black market adoptions in which the child was born
in Florida and placed in New York
- DNA
Testing for Adoptees and Natural Parents Genetic
searches are often the only way a black-market-adoption
victim -- parent or child -- can find their missing
family members.
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"...
it is quite possible that, in the near future, unwed mothers
will be "punished" by having their children taken from them
right after birth. A policy like this would not be executed
-- nor labeled explicitly -- as "punishment." - Unmarried
Mothers, by Clark Vincent
(1961)
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