Coleman Moms and Babes
This blog is for the mothers and adoptees of the Suemma Coleman Home for Unwed Mothers. This maternity home is now known as St. Elizabeth Coleman. This is about our experiences, our searches, our fight...
View ArticleWayward Past
Before single motherhood and Roe v. Wade, unwed women rode out their pregnancies at a Northwest D.C. mansion.read more
View ArticleAdoption: It's not what it used to be
From: http://www.pregnancyoutreach.org/AdoptionNotWhatItUsedToBe.htmFrom the beginning of the 20th century through the 1950’s and 1960’s, unwed pregnancy was considered extremely shameful. Although a...
View ArticleMaternity Homes, and their special services
If child child migration and orphan trains weren't enough, profit through new-placement got cloaked under a new scheme in the family-making business machine: Maternity Homes.read more
View ArticleThe paradoxical rationalization of modern adoption
The paradoxical rationalization of modern adoption - social and economic aspects of adoption Ellen Hermanread more
View ArticleAdoption Services
I try not to discuss religion with people, because I know it's a personal topic based on subjective knowledge of one's own denomination. Religion far too often starts many heated debates, which in my...
View ArticleButterbox Babies
From: "The Ideal Maternity Home"Lila Gladys Young was daughter of Salem and Bessie Coolen. The family was of strong Seventh-day Adventists faith. Lila became a teacher, after finishing school, then...
View ArticleMarkets where babies are sold as commodities – Investigation
By Niyi Odebode, Adelani Adepegba and Ademola OniPublished: Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008In this report, NIYI ODEBODE, ADELANI ADEPEGBA and ADEMOLA ONI explain how many private maternity centres and hospitals...
View ArticleUS Adoption Center Set to Help Bulgarian Orphans
March 18, 2009 / novinite.comThe US adoption agency, The Gladney Center for Adoption, has opened an inter-country adoption program in Bulgaria.The Gladney Center is one of the oldest and largest...
View ArticleReligious Influence
Many years ago, I had many discussions with a first-mother who lost her son, first through adoption, then later to suicide.Our phone conversations were especially hard because I could hear the sob in...
View ArticleAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) conference screens...
(Niels kindly asked if I would move a copy of this piece over from my personal blog. I originally published this yesterday.)read more
View ArticleASAC adds an addenda to the description of the racist misogynistic ......
By way of a brief follow up on my original post,Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) conference screens racist misogynistic objectifying anti-abortion maternity camp propaganda...
View ArticleNSCDC Rescues 17 Ladies From Illegal Maternity Home
CasesNigeria - Maternity home trafficking casedate2009-12-01 sourceDaily IndependentbodyBy Ben Duru Correspondent, Umuahia Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abia State command, has...
View ArticleAdoption and Altruism
I've been thinking about the many ways in which adoption gets sold to the public, and one of my favorite misleading paths adoption advocates like to take is the one that teaches newcomers adoption is...
View ArticleCatholic Church says sorry to mothers
By Neelima ChoahanJuly 72, 2011 / The CourierBALLARAT’S Catholic Bishop Peter Connors has joined his national counterparts in apologising to single mothers who were forced to give up their babies for...
View ArticleCurtain lifts on decades of forced adoptions for unwed mothers in Canada
Kathryn Blaze Carlson / nationalpost.comread more
View Article'Our babies were abducted' on the delivery table: North Vancouver woman
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/babies+were+abducted+delivery+table+Nor...Former unwed mom says B.C. forced her to give up babyBy Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun March 16, 2012Hanne Andersen was an athletic...
View ArticleKorean-Australian woman finds she was falsely adopted
CasesKorea - misc child trafficking casesdate2012-09-18 sourceSBS.combodyAn Australian woman has found she was the subject of a falsified adoption in South Korea, where her biological mother was told...
View ArticleNSW apologises for forced adoptions
Brendan Trembath reported this storySeptember 20, 2012 / abc.net.auread more
View ArticleUnited Church of Canada to hold mirror to its role in forced adoptions as...
By Kathryn Blaze CarlsonOctober 9, 2012 / nationalpost.comread more
View ArticleExploring cross-border adoptions
By Laura StrickerOctober 17, 2012 / thesudburystar.comWhen the Life and Health Sanitarium opened in Nova Scotia in 1928, it promised maternity care for married couples and a discreet place to come to...
View ArticleNigerian 'Baby Factories' Exposed In Child Harvesting Raid
By Ben Simon / Agence France Presse The proprietor of Nigeria's Moonlight Maternity Clinic was not interested in discussing allegations that he sells newborn babies, with boys fetching higher prices...
View ArticleMass grave of up to 800 dead babies exposed in County Galway
By Cahir O'Doherty / Irish Central May 26, 2014According to a report in the Irish Mail on Sunday, a mass grave has been located beside a former home for unmarried mothers and babies in County Galway....
View ArticleTorn from their mothers' arms
It's a tale of terrible heartbreak Britain's tried to forget: Hundreds of thousands of mothers forced to give up their babies because they weren't married. Now they want justiceBy Frances Hardy/ The...
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