To quote from this article: Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 14-year-old boy with attempted murder and said he committed a hate crime in the classroom shooting of an eighth-grader who was declared brain dead. Prosecutors would not say why they filed a hate-crime enhancement with the attempted murder count, but several classmates said the 15-year-old […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is one of several posts that I made private between May 31rst 2008 and July 22, 2008. (This represents the time period between my resigning from working on the Adoptee Rights Demonstration / Day for Adoptee Rights, (ARD / DAR) and it actually taking place in New Orleans.) The piece below was originally posted […]

This is yet another of those many ‘coming in in the middle’ posts, that are so very Baby Love Child. While I’ve been carefully watching the unfolding of this saga, this is the first I’ve blogged it. The story of Masha Allen is emblematic of so much of the core of what’s wrong with adoption, […]

So a Bastard and her adoptive father walk into a bar… did I mention she had a parrot on her shoulder? No, sorry, wrong joke. Let’s try this again. So some time back Baby Love Child and her adoptive father walk into Vital Statistics (vital sadistics) one morning. (As they were both born in the […]

So my life partner, Mike, has finally set up his own blog, “Sleeps With Bastard.” (Cue the champagne!) As a non-adopted person, external to the adoption pentagon (I’ll explain later, in another post) but someone deeply familiar with concepts of information systems and information control among other things, I at least, feel he’s got things […]