Support and Counseling for Mothers and Adult Adoptees who were Separated at Birth

Websites dealing with adoption-separation issues:

• Origins Inc NSW.
• The Baby Scoop Era Research Initiative
• Origins Canada
• Trackers International (U.K.)
• Carlini Institute
• Post-adoption Trauma & Reunion Counseling
• Adoption Crossroads
• "birth" Mothers Exploited By Adoption (see especially this site's unique collection of personal surrender experiences)

Adoption Documentary

• Out of the Fog: Mothers Speak About Adoption

Support groups for adoption-separation and adoption reunion issues

• Adoptese, Origins Canada, Adult Adoptees Advocating For Change,
• On Delphiforums: Origins post-adoption forum
  
  

  

Open sealed adoption records, reuniting "birth" parents and adopted son or daughter.

• Unsealed Initiative: New York Statewide Adoption Reform
• Bastard Nation
• The 2009 Philadelphia Adoptee Rights Demonstration

Adoption Reunion Resources:

• International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR)
• Cyndi's List: Adoption Reunion Resources
• Canadian Adoptees Registry
• Canadian Adoption Reunion Registry (CARR)

Some additional reading:

• Infant Adoption Awareness Training - Why it must be ended

• Maternity Homes and Infant Adoption commentary by Linda Webber

• "Open Adoption - The Wall" by Terri Enbourge. This essay describes what "open" adoption may be like for "birthmoms" and "birth" siblings.
• Domestic Adoption Baby Boom - Exploiting Women and Families in America

Note: There is a large market for newborn babies for American adoption. Adoption "counselors" in North America like to refer to expectant parents as "birthparents" or "birthmothers", while calling the unrelated person hoping to adopt a "parent". The objective of this so-called "respectful adoption language" is to make the acquisition of healthy newborn babies by infertile people seem "normal". The euphemism "adoption" is used to deflect attention from the reality - this is a transfer of human babies from loving (if naive or pressured) relatives to customers.

The misleading, disrespectful terms "birthmother", "birthfather" and "birthparents" are used on this website for search engine purposes only. The terms "mother", "father", "single parent", " family member" and "natural mother" are accurate, respectful, and nonderogatory terms. See "Why Birthmother Means Breeder" by Diane Turski for more information.

Other misleading, dishonest terms include "biological" child, "genetic" sister, "surrogate" mother, egg "donor", or sperm "donor". These terms are used to make human beings appear to be unrelated to their own family members. Why would a "donated" child (or adult adoptee) wish to learn more about - or contact - her "biological" sister or mother? Why would she say after reunion that it "feels like" her "biological sister" (or other relative) is her sister (or other relative)? Because true families are created by nature, not by government edicts or by the adoption or "sale" of babies.

Is your unmarried daughter pregnant? Consider options to help to keep your grandchild:

"Unplanned" Pregnancy Help

Considering Open Adoption? Read how agenices are using promises of openness to lure mothers into relinquishing their parental rights:

Open Adoption Agencies and the Domestic Adoption Baby Boom

Lost a baby to adoption? Learn about the social policies designed to get more babies for adoption and get to know some other moms like yourself:

The Baby Scoop Era Research Initiative: American Adoption and "Unwed" Mothers History