The Adoption Experience

National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM)

*Adoptee Tik Tok
*Legislative Summit 2023 in Indianapolis
* Concerned United Birth Parents retreat 2023
*Celia Center adoption conference Nov 10, 11 2023
*Adoptee Rights 101
*Real ID complications (and passport update!)
*Adoptee Remembrance Day- 11/30/23 
*National Adoption Awareness Month
Show Notes:
NAAP Adoption Happy Hour:
https://naapunited.org/adoption-happy-hour
Preorder the book: "Relinquished:  The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood." 
https://www.amazon.com/Relinquished-Politics-Adoption-Privilege-Motherhood/dp/1250286778/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2A50CHXAVR2JZ&keywords=relinquished%3A+The+politics+of+adoption&qid=1699013928&s=books&sprefix=relinquished+the+politics+of+adoption%2Cstripbooks%2C74&sr=1-1
Celia Center adoption conference:
https://celia-center-adoption-constellation.mn.co/plans/339536?bundle_token=9059baf90d541a7b894e633227303955&utm_source=manual%20noopener
Real ID Debaucle:
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-burning-question-will-the-government-finally-decide/id1598023322?i=1000633287479
Adoptee Remembrance Day Virtual Candlelight Vigil (10/30/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uun76F2JQpE&ab_channel=UnravelingAdoption-podcastandotherresources
 
 

Saving Our Sisters From Unnecessary Adoption

Learn about the nonprofit that was started by first mothers who are helping other women not have to go through what they did when they lost their children to an un-regulated adoption industry.
Correction:  Lisa Woolsey (I said her name wrong on the podcast) gave the training that I attended.
Learn about the Board of Directors of SOS here:
https://savingoursistersadoption.org/saving-our-sisters-about-us/boardofdirectors/
Family Preservation Project (Where Moms and Resources Meet):
https://thefamilypreservationproject.com/
 
 
 
 

Stop the Unregulated Adoption Industry

Pressure on UK government for formal apology re forced adoption:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/09/victims-of-forced-adoption-step-up-pressure-for-uk-government-apology
Adoption Trends (why a decline in adoption?)
Intersection of coercive control, the troubled teen industry (TTI) and adoption.  More on TTI here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLaEnQ2Dp0&ab_channel=60MinutesAustralia
H.R. 1475 - Hospital Adoption Education Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1475/text
NAAP Happy hour replay of Friday 6.2.23 Zoom presentation of "All You Have is Love":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_G1yXypDcI&t=889s&ab_channel=NationalAssociationofAdoptees%26Parents
Trailer of the documentary here (pledge a donation!):
https://seedandspark.com/fund/allyouhaveislove#story
 
 
 
 
 

Kidnapped ”adoptee” in reunion

Our personal kinship adoption experience and subsequent open adoption; When God Calls you to adopt; risks of unlicensed adoption brokers; the Kamiya Mobley story (kidnapped child learns she is not the biological daughter of her "adoptive" mom when she is 18 years old).
 
Show Notes:
Risks of Unlicensed Adoption Brokers in Private Adoption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onyzHGYKXOo&t=64s&ab_channel=AdoptionNetCle
When God Calls You to Adopt (by The Real Adoptee Moxie)
https://open.substack.com/pub/therealadopteamoxie/p/when-god-calls-you-to-adopt?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The Kamiyah Mobley story:
https://www.hulu.com/series/beyond-the-headlines-the-kamiyah-mobley-story-with-robin-roberts-dd7e8f8f-7b48-4171-bdda-702251449f36
Link to my blog:
https://noapologiesforbeingme.blogspot.com/
 
 
 

Adoption in the News

Adoptee Citizenship Act; Adult Adoption Scam; Ohio Kinship and Adoption Navigators (OhioKAN); Korean Court Rules Against Adoption Agency: North Dakota ICWA law; Attorneys on the Bus; Rootstech Genealogy Conference
 
Show notes:
Latest on Citizenship for Intercountry Adoptees:
https://adopteerightslaw.com/adoptee-citizenship-act-status/
OhioKAN (help with kinship and adoption resources)
https://ohiokan.jfs.ohio.gov/our-program/
Ohio Justice Bus:
https://www.ohiolegalhelp.org/blog-5-25-2021-ohio-justice-bus
Family Search (Rootstech Genealogy Conference):
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/
 
 

Being Adopted on Mother’s Day

Gun control; high school shooting threat; applying for a passport, (and reported problems with being adopted); Birth Mother’s Day, Mother’s Day; being adopted and menopause.
 
Show notes:
 
Blog about being adopted and getting a passport:
https://www.adoptionbirthmothers.com/us-adoptees-have-trouble-getting-passports-due-to-sealed-records-law/
Interview at The Adoption Files with Lorraine Dusky, author of "Hole in my Heart:"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/76vrspm8FcEkDZfyvxDCz7?si=24Z6P-ABRM-_iMbSWTIFUA
 
Research about mother's and daughter's age of menopause:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9243205/
 BUY YOURSELF FLOWERS, LADIES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KNmW9a75Y&ab_channel=MileyCyrusVEVO
 
 
 
 

The Lost Sons

The Lost Sons (the Paul Fronczak story), interview with Lorraine Dusky (author and journalist); Ohio Adoption Grant, Netherlands discontinues international adoption with U.S., Swatting in Ohio 3rd degree felony, 
World Affair this weekend
https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news-and-media/governor-signs-executive-order-to-launch-adoption-grant-program-04072023
Swatting in Ohio
https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/swatting-now-a-felony-under-ohio-governors-new-law-7WgkegICV0SQoexk/
The Lost Sons (the Paul Fronczak story) 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14030624/
The Netherlands discontinued doing adoption business with the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/netherlands-international-adoptions.html#:~:text=the%20main%20story-,Netherlands%20Halts%20Adoptions%20From%20Abroad%20After%20Exposing%20Past%20Abuses,and%20government%20complicity%20until%201998.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/Intercountry-Adoption-News/the-netherlands--closed-intercountry-adoptions-between-the-nethe.html
Hole in my Heart (Lorraine Dusky)
https://www.amazon.com/Hole-My-Heart-Fault-Adoption-dp-1951479793/dp/1951479793/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
Ohio Adoption Grant Program
https://fosterandadopt.jfs.ohio.gov/adoption/grant
The Adoption Files
https://open.spotify.com/show/68DXjPUypeImBmFZr9OOpo
 
 

Jesus Babies

One woman rock-n-roll show; being adopted at The World Affair; telling my mom I wanted to search for my birth mom; the B.I.T.E. model of authoritarian control; what the heck are Jesus Babies? Family preservation
 
Show Notes:
Trans Am by Lisa Stephen Friday:
https://www.transamshow.com/press
World Affair
https://www.aworldafair.org/
B.I.T.E. Model
https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Jesus Babies (alternatives to adoption that support family preservation):
Informal temporary caregiver of mother and child
Power of Attorney to Grandparents or others
Legal Custody to Kin or Fictive Kin
Kinship Adoption
 

Adoption is a Little Bit Culty

Crazy Ohio weather; new Ohio phone law; the B.I.T.E. model as it relates to cults and adoption; National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL); educating about opening sealed original birth certificates of adoptees; Indian Child Welfare Act
The Adoption Files podcast with Ande Stanley and Lynn Grubb:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KFmco76gY9iGisxCBFChR?si=JLcCNk7OSZGCCSJnrwpxMg
A Little Bit Culty podcast:
https://alittlebitculty.com/
The B.I.T.E. Model:
https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
This Land podcast (updates on ICWA)
https://crooked.com/podcast/this-land-episode-1-the-case/
Books mentioned: 
Sandy White Hawk:
https://shop.mnhs.org/products/a-child-of-the-indian-race
Gabrielle Glaser:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Baby-Mother-History-Adoption/dp/0735224684
National Conference of State Legislatures (Indianapolis 2023)
https://www.ncsl.org/
Right to Know:
https://righttoknow.us/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Untangling Our Roots Together

Post-conference thoughts; Ohio politics (reproductive rights and death penalty); CASA guardian ad litem; working in law; adoption themed musical in the works; Easter lunch with Weezy and her high heels.
SHOW NOTES:
https://untanglingourroots.org/
For the Record, a new musical in production:
https://www.ftrmusical.com/
Ohio ballot issues:
https://www.ohiosos.gov/legislation-and-ballot-issues/ballot-board/
Lynn's blog about her reproductive journey:
https://noapologiesforbeingme.blogspot.com/2022/07/adopted-and-pro-choice-reproductive.html
A story about Lynn's 91-yr old mom:
https://www.facebook.com/lynn.grubb/posts/pfbid02xBKCzGM9YKQUqVwDZFKRiT2BWzVk1SiGZj9xUnSzTirjHg47q5ZyfBywiX19f3irl
Rachel Coyle: How Things Work at the Statehouse:
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ML6J35ZXTZQQT/checkout/YB4FGW6A53NJ5RFANQLOYCUL