Open Adoption "Birthmom" Facts and Myths
Adoption History
Adoption articles of historic value
"This Time Must Come" - Sandy Musser "Not By Choice" - Karen Wilson Buterbaugh "America's Secret Crime Against the Family" - Jessica DelBalzo "Bush Admin Pushes Grabbing Babies from Poor Women so Wealthy can Adopt" - Linda Webber
"This Time Must Come" - Sandy Musser
"Not By Choice" - Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
"America's Secret Crime Against the Family" - Jessica DelBalzo
"Bush Admin Pushes Grabbing Babies from Poor Women so Wealthy can Adopt" - Linda Webber
"speech" "speeches" "speech topics" articles news adoption awareness adoption issues concerns "adoption" adopt adopted adopted-out baby babies "adoption history" "women in history" "birthmother" "American Adoptions" "birthmothers" "Birthmother scams" "adoption choice" "adoption option" "options" pregnant girls experience church-affiliated adoption agencies "maternity homes" Florence Crittenton maternity home institutions "wage homes" "unwed mothers" unmarried mothers "against adoption" "opposed to adoption" scams 1960 home for unwed mothers scorn shelter nature choices coercion economic coercion forced baby factories thought reform adoption agencies decision-making social work out-of-wedlock casework caseworker shamed disenfranchised grief grief fertility infertility solution problem policy searching birthparent birthparents resources adoption search adoptive families original birth certificate society live incubators stigmatizing labels breeders incubators lost children give birth birth families family motherhood adoption industry American Adoption Congress Catholic Charities blamed parents pregnancy pregnant girls labor delivery adoption triad secrecy birth mothers marginalized closed adoption surrender surrendered comparison Margaret Thayler Singer Richard Ofshe, singer Ofshe psychologists leading experts effectiveness six conditions thought reform programs effect effects environment controlled environment control time prison settings physical abuse death threats Programs application intense guilt guilt shame anxiety limit freedom freedom of movement isolation thinking manipulation baby production strong emotional arousal strict routines settings contact people social pressures psychological pressures psychologically psychology neurotic enforced confinement government welfare aid AFDC sense of powerlessness powerlessness power rewards punishments behavior identity rules priviledges lectures support system censored mail legal counsel counselling hide away visitation atmosphere free choice choice evidence bias relinquishment attitudes conflict guilty withholding agency files documentation documents files records healing confidentiality vital statistics births years statement adoption reunions loved children gave up Rickie Solinger criminal patient community post-war America social work profession responsible expenses hopital hopital bill doctor fees lawyer fees foster care painful lonely punished loss depression self-destruction eating disorders intimacy trust emotionally estranged injustice convey young vulnerable horrific act deeply wounded wounded truth understanding eliminate labels demeaning terminology diminish devalue relationships origins Originsusa Usa united states america Karen wilson Buterbaugh lost daughter adoption 1966 "speech" "speeches" or "speech topics" "debates" or " articles against adoption" or "opposed to adoption". Or "crime" "crimes" "secret" "child abuse" "slavery" "rape" "loving option" "effects of adoption" "anti-adoption" "reproductive rights" women's reproductive rights "family" "rights" scams "human rights" "articles" "against adoption" "opposed to adoption" "speech topics" "speeches" debate debates public welfare reproductive rights, human rights, women's issues, maternity homes adopt adoption baby babies women women's reproductive rights reproductive choices unplanned pregnancy options anti-choice unwed mothers single mothers rights single mothers Bush George Bush George W Dubya President Bush Bush Admin Bush Administration domestic policy policies
"speech" "speeches" "speech topics" articles news adoption awareness adoption issues concerns "adoption" adopt adopted adopted-out baby babies "adoption history" "women in history" "birthmother" "American Adoptions" "birthmothers" "Birthmother scams" "adoption choice" "adoption option" "options" pregnant girls experience church-affiliated adoption agencies "maternity homes" Florence Crittenton maternity home institutions "wage homes" "unwed mothers" unmarried mothers "against adoption" "opposed to adoption" scams 1960 home for unwed mothers scorn shelter nature choices coercion economic coercion forced baby factories thought reform adoption agencies decision-making social work out-of-wedlock casework caseworker shamed disenfranchised grief grief fertility infertility solution problem policy searching birthparent birthparents resources adoption search adoptive families original birth certificate society live incubators stigmatizing labels breeders incubators lost children give birth birth families family motherhood adoption industry American Adoption Congress Catholic Charities blamed parents pregnancy pregnant girls labor delivery adoption triad secrecy birth mothers marginalized closed adoption surrender surrendered comparison Margaret Thayler Singer Richard Ofshe, singer Ofshe psychologists leading experts effectiveness six conditions thought reform programs effect effects environment controlled environment control time prison settings physical abuse death threats Programs application intense guilt guilt shame anxiety limit freedom freedom of movement isolation thinking manipulation baby production strong emotional arousal strict routines settings contact people social pressures psychological pressures psychologically psychology neurotic enforced confinement government welfare aid AFDC sense of powerlessness powerlessness power rewards punishments behavior identity rules priviledges lectures support system censored mail legal counsel counselling hide away visitation atmosphere free choice choice evidence bias relinquishment attitudes conflict guilty withholding agency files documentation documents files records healing confidentiality vital statistics births years statement adoption reunions loved children gave up
Rickie Solinger criminal patient community post-war America social work profession responsible expenses hopital hopital bill doctor fees lawyer fees foster care painful lonely punished loss depression self-destruction eating disorders intimacy trust emotionally estranged injustice convey young vulnerable horrific act deeply wounded wounded truth understanding eliminate labels demeaning terminology diminish devalue relationships origins Originsusa Usa united states america Karen wilson Buterbaugh lost daughter adoption 1966
"speech" "speeches" or "speech topics" "debates" or " articles against adoption" or "opposed to adoption". Or "crime" "crimes" "secret" "child abuse" "slavery" "rape" "loving option" "effects of adoption" "anti-adoption" "reproductive rights" women's reproductive rights "family" "rights" scams "human rights"
"articles" "against adoption" "opposed to adoption" "speech topics" "speeches" debate debates public welfare reproductive rights, human rights, women's issues, maternity homes adopt adoption baby babies women women's reproductive rights reproductive choices unplanned pregnancy options anti-choice
unwed mothers single mothers rights single mothers Bush George Bush George W Dubya President Bush
Bush Admin Bush Administration domestic policy policies
The status of women in a society may be partially determined by the number of women who have their babies adopted-out.
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