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Announcing SECA- Stop Encouraging Child Abandonment, working to repeal the legalized child abandonment laws

(Please distribute freely, keeping links intact.) Last Friday, December 5th, 2008, the SECA web-page finally went live. (http://www.stopdumpingkids.com/) SECA, short for “Stop Encouraging Child Abandonment,” is a concept that has been a long time coming. From the first of the legalized child abandonment laws passed in 1999 until now, efforts to repeal and stop the […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 9th, 2008
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Nebraska- Age it down to ZeroPointZero, (I.E. No kids at all,) put an end to legalized child dumping

This is the latest in a series of posts I have done criticizing Nebraska’s legalized child abandonment laws. You can find my earlier posts via my Nebraska tag. *** I’ve been carefully studying the parameters of what can and cannot be done to the Nebraska dump law during the special session. If I read the […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on November 16th, 2008
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Kids and parents need a REAL haven from the so called safe havens, Will Nebraska step up?

This is the latest in a series of posts I have done criticizing Nebraska’s legalized child abandonment laws. You can find my earlier posts via my Nebraska tag. *** Tragically, at the moment there is only one place in the United States that infants are protected from State enabled child abandonments, Washington DC. Only there […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on November 15th, 2008
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Maryland- outsourcing, starvation, autopsies, and previous entanglement with MD CWA under a false name

Special note to readers- I’ve done multiple posts within this 24 hour period so be sure to see the post beneath this one as well. *** This is my fourth post following the horrific events in Maryland this past week, the grizzly discovery of two of Renee Bowman’s adopted daughters kept in a freezer in […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on October 3rd, 2008
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Maryland- “how did this person . . . qualify to become an adoptive parent?”

Special note to readers- I’m doing two posts tonight, so please also be sure to read Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare for part II of my coverage. (This third post is coming almost immediately on the heels of my second post following the developing Maryland story. I cut this writing […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on October 1st, 2008
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Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare

This is a follow-up post to my initial post on this story, read Maryland- 3 adopted daughters; 1 beaten, 2 dead, frozen in freezer for 7 months first if you haven’t already. *** Today more details are emerging. The Washington Post article, Md. Mother Jailed After Bodies Of 2 Children Found in Freezer, for example, […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 30th, 2008
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Maryland- 3 adopted daughters; 1 beaten, 2 dead, frozen in freezer for 7 months

By way of the Washington Post article, Calvert Woman Arrested in Deaths of Two Children: Authorities said they found what appeared to be the bodies of two children in a “drop-in” freezer Saturday in the basement of Renee Bowman’s home on Buckskin Trail in Lusby. Sheriff’s deputies had been searching the house for evidence in […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 29th, 2008
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Announcing SECA- Stop Encouraging Child Abandonment, working to repeal the legalized child abandonment laws

Nebraska- Age it down to ZeroPointZero, (I.E. No kids at all,) put an end to legalized child dumping

Kids and parents need a REAL haven from the so called safe havens, Will Nebraska step up?

Maryland- outsourcing, starvation, autopsies, and previous entanglement with MD CWA under a false name

Maryland- “how did this person . . . qualify to become an adoptive parent?”

Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare

Maryland- 3 adopted daughters; 1 beaten, 2 dead, frozen in freezer for 7 months

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Glossary- New Terminology

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Bastardly Basics- a selection of older posts that cover some of the basics

Archives

Announcing SECA- Stop Encouraging Child Abandonment, working to repeal the legalized child abandonment laws

Nebraska- Age it down to ZeroPointZero, (I.E. No kids at all,) put an end to legalized child dumping

Kids and parents need a *REAL* haven from the so called safe havens, Will Nebraska step up?

Maryland- outsourcing, starvation, autopsies, and previous entanglement with MD CWA under a false name

Maryland- “how did this person . . . qualify to become an adoptive parent?”

Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare

Maryland- 3 adopted daughters; 1 beaten, 2 dead, frozen in freezer for 7 months

ABOUT

Activists Working for Adoptee Rights- State by State

Activists Working to monitor and respond to legislative threats in states that have opened records

Advocacy Statements

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I author/co-author

Pages

hashtag it #NAdoptAM in November

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My NaBloPoMo I & II- October and November 2010 (2 months straight)

Kids and parents need a REAL haven from the so called safe havens, Will Nebraska step up?