These are two posts I originally wrote over on http://www.adultadoptees.org in response to a thread about Nancy Verrier’s books; “The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child” and “Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up”.
I’ve moved the two posts over here as they cover far more ground than merely Verrier’s posited ‘damage’ Bastards […]

A recent excellent piece from the (Canadian) Vancouver Sun on some of the tactics used to ensure womyn would not search; tell them the infant died, then put it up for adoption.
The other angle on this, and one of the many fairy tales Bastards are commonly told to prevent us from searching are the stories […]

As of now comments are set to moderated approved only.
Nothing personal, just consider it just another unfortunately necessary level of spam control.

Buckeyes for Equal Access that is.
BEA has a myspace up here. To quote just a paragraph of Bastardette’s wonderful introduction to BEA-
“Anyone can become a BEA friend, but we are inviting particularly anyone with an Ohio adoption connection who believes in the unalienable right of all adoptees to their identities and public records of their […]

Some days it’s just too horrific to even blog.
Thus, I begin “News”. This is the new tag I’m going to be using from time to time, you know, like when words simply fail me.
Or when I’m too busy, or disenchanted, or furious to actually blog, but media stories go by that are certainly blogworthy. I’m […]

So, now after the long December hiatus (sorry folks!), I’m finally getting to at least one of the posts that’s long overdue: the post about the upcoming Adoptee Rights Demonstration in New Orleans, (which I affectionately refer to more as ‘Bastards take it to the Legislators’, somewhat of a post-Katrina New Orleans Bastard sequel for […]