🥚 Framed as happy, this story has details that speak to the inherent cruelty of plenary adoption. No one told her she was adopted until age 7. When her adoptive parents died their bio kids rejected her.
Her bio dad has to adopt her to get his name on her birth certificate
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My brother is living proof that I come from somewhere, and we are not alone in this world. #adoption 🥚 www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/...
Human babies should not be separated from their mothers at birth. Do first mothers even know this is happening to them when their baby is immediately taken? 🥚 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Adoptees have been telling you. Forced confinement is not a "forever home." Telling the truth does not make one mentally ill. It exposes systemic sickness that needs to be treated. 🥚
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Oxytocin and prostaglandin are hormones responsible for uterine contraction during the third stage of labour. Receptors in the uterine muscles are stimulated by exogenous or endogenous oxytocin leadin...
Jennifer Skiles said hearing her father’s voice for the first time “felt like home.” Four years later, their emotional bond is now a legal one.
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A system built on demand and stigma sent more than 200,000 Korean children overseas. CNA’s One “Orphan” Every Hour follows adoptees as they retrace fragmented pasts, find lost siblings and uncover lon...
Adopted children are promised ‘forever homes.’ An Associated Press investigation finds that many are quietly institutionalized in for-profit facilities instead.
An Associated Press investigation finds that a business known for tough-love boarding schools for rebellious, rich teenagers has set its sights on a different demographic: adopted kids.
Should we really expect reasonable arguments for an unreasonable case?
Climate change is the spirits of angry ghost dinosaurs seeking revenge on humans for disrespecting their graves.
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Have we learned nothing from SpongeBob? Don't provoke the Plankton!
I often wonder about the loss of living that results from plenary adoption. What would adoptees and original families be doing if their love, time, and money didn't have to be spent chasing documents, locating lost family members, or filing court cases? It’s a tragic loss for the world.
