Bastardette and I continue to write about the legalized child abandonment laws (so called baby dunp, or baby Moses/safe haven laws,) their ongoing failures, and how babies are still consistently turning up dead and women are still consistently going to jail. I’ve written repeatedly, that rather than legalized child abandonment, there could, and must be […]

Much as I am sick to death of seeing headlines refering to adults as perpetual “children,” some of the reporting on Olivia Pratten’s suit has otherwise actually been fairly good. Pulling but two examples from earlier today: This Vancouver Sun piece goes into a fair amount of detail, shining a momentary spotlight on the lives […]

Until now, Costa Rica had been one of  only 43 countries where in vitro fertilization was illegal. See Costa Rica Seeks In Vitro Compromise. As there is little regulation of this industry and standards vary wildly reproductive tourism has been the result, with infertile couples researching and then crossing borders to buy what services and […]

Following up on my two posts from last week: Florida, Queer Adoptions, and the reek of George A. Rekers & a cast of cronies Florida Queer Adoptions Post follow up, some theory, and some clarifications Friday Florida’s Attorney General Bill McCollum announced that the state would not be appealing the recent appellate court decision that […]

Back in mid-August adoptees had a partial victory that we had hoped might lead to genuine structural changes, see my post Massive (partial) victory for adoptees from India and their human rights! As I wrote at the time, referring to Arun Dohle’s efforts to gain his adoption file: ….when it comes to establishing the absolute […]

Sorrow, such deep sorrow. Sorrow because I pay attention, and I write what little I can get words around. Yet at the same time, I am angry. Usually, I have a great deal to say. Today, I almost feel done with words. (For the moment at least.) Every time I try to string words together […]

I’ve barely scratched the surface of writing about the history of the residential schools and how First Nations peoples in both the United States and Canada have undergone generations worth of the  forcible removal of their children. See Adoption as a tool of cultural genocide, the “child grabs” Canadian First Nations peoples have endured, News- […]

This is another of those “coming in in the middle” sorts of posts. I’m not going to attempt to rehash the history of Mothers’ and Adoptees’ activism in Australia leading up to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Into Adoption Practices, which was a watershed event with global implications. Instead I’ll simply point readers at ONE particular […]

At first glance, what might appear a bit of “good news,” America’s refusal to participate in the Guatemalan adoption pilot program, turns out to be just another call to “resolve” the so called “pipeline” cases. Essentially, the U.S. is saying regular imports of Guatemalan children will not resume until this backlog of cases from before […]

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 […]