This is another post I’ve been trying to get to for some time now. I’ve been writing for years about hidden pregnancies, secret births, and how no matter what some of the “baby safe haven” law/legalized child abandonment advocates insist, there will always been some number of women who will never be reached by these […]

Earlier this month I blogged several posts using Mississippi as a case study in relation to the ongoing failures of the legalized child abandonment schemes. The so called “baby Moses” or “safe haven” laws were passed nationwide on the assurances of those advocating legalized child abandonment that unsafe child abandonments and the number of dead […]

This post must first begin with an expression of gratitude, because this post itself is little more than a compilation of the work Bastardette has done over the course of years with some technical support (and formatting help) from my partner, thrown in for good measure. In the course of writing my post about the […]

Photo: Justin Lewis, WTVA Yesterday evening around 6pm, a recently born Hispanic baby boy was discovered, wrapped in a blanket and latched into a car seat left off at the Houston, Mississippi Salvation Army donations area. Abandoned newborn found in Houston (see video in right sidebar) Most things left at the back of the Salvation […]

My last two posts have been important “Basic Building Blocks Posts” (BBBPs) that serve as backgrounder information to bear in mind as one looks at foster care-adoption financial incentives. “Foster-adopt” as a case study in the problems of adoption language & information hiding (BBBP part 1) When discussing Foster-Adopt, these are some Foster realities to […]

I’ve often mentioned how blogging here on Baby Love Child comes up against certain difficulties tied to how this so often amounts to some version of “coming in in the middle.” In order to write a piece, I must first back up and try to lay out some of the inherent assumptions and pieces of […]

On Monday the New Jersey Assembly’s Human Services Committee heard testimony on A1406 (The Assembly’s version of the New Jersey Senate’s S799.) The bill has become a mangled beyond repair attempt at what was originally intended to be open records legislation. At this point the two bills have been combined and are now known as […]

This post has three parts: My introduction Some links towards context & historical perspective on the situation in New Jersey The Bastard Nation Action Alert- Stop New Jersey A1406/S799 Today! Introduction- New Jersey’s A1406/S799 is NOT an adoptee rights bill. It is yet another fake/conditional access for a lucky few at the direct cost of […]

I first began blogging about adoption in late October 2007 in the aftermath of having attended the “Adoption: Ethics and Accountability” conference (Ethica and and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute were some of the primary sponsors.) That conference was a case study in both the lack of ethics and buzzed worded/soundbyted  “accountability” (accountable to […]

Перевести на русский The last 24 hours have been a whirlwind. Obviously events are unfolding more quickly than even those who update far more often than I can keep up with, let alone my little blog. The big news tonight is that Russia has put a freeze on all US adoptions until Russia and the […]