Origins-USA Study
"Mother's Voices:
Surrender Experiences and Long-Term Effects" |
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"Neither society nor the mother
who holds the child in her arms wants to confront the agony of the mother from whose arms that same child was taken."
Margaret McDonald Lawrence
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See mothers who lost children to adoption and
Hear their stories in their own words...
VIDEO:
"Motherhood, Adoption, Surrender & Loss"
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The Latest
Mothers in Action
Newsletter:
Winter 2008
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Origins-USA
Supports
I VOTE CAMPAIGN
To participate just send a postcard to your elected officials identifying yourself and your position on open records. For more information!
http://www.onevoicenosecrets.org/main
Suggested wording for post cards:
I am a mother who lost my child to adoption and I support equal access to birth certificates for all the parties the certificate pertains to.
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"Regrettably, in many cases,
the emphasis has changed from the desire to provide a needy child
with a home,
to that of providing a needy parent
with a child.
As a result, a whole industry has grown, generating millions of dollars of
revenue each year..."
Commission on Human Rights, resolution 2002/92; E/CN/2002/79; page 25
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"Adoption should always be the last resort for the child...
The CRC [UN Convention on the Rights of the Child],
which guides UNICEF's work,
states very clearly [Article 7] that every child has the right to know and to be cared for by his or her own parents, whenever possible."
UNICEF Press Release March 7, 2007 and UNICEF's position on inter-country adoption |