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Sunday, October 10, 2010

ways for us to curb baby dumping

  I think we should introduce this organisation or make a new organisation that has a similar function as this Bastard Nation organisation.
  Bastard Nation is a North American adult adoptee political advocacy and support organization. It was founded in 1996 by denizens of the Usenet newsgroup alt.adoption Shea Grimm, Damsel Plum, Marley Greiner and Lainie Petersen. The original intent of the organization was to support adult adoptees in gaining access their original birth certificates as a civil right, rather than as a vehicle for facilitating search, which had been the aim of prior open records organizations (See The ALMA Society The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association - "Celebrating more 38 Years of Adoption Reunion and Reform, 1971 - 2009"]. It is also distinguished from search-and-reconnection focused organizations in that it supports the full spectrum of the adult adoptee experience, including adoptees who do not wish to search[1] and adoptees whose reconnections were a bad experience[2].
Besides advocating adult adoptee access to original birth certificates, Bastard Nation also launches campaigns against negative stereotypes of adoption and adoptees.[3]
North American adoptee birth certificates were originally sealed only to non-family members in the early 20th century[4] but after WWII most states[5] sealed adoptee birth certificates permanently to all parties involved: the adoptee, the adoptive parents and the birthparents.
The group has been successful in getting several states in the United States to approve legislation to open sealed records, for example in Oregon by Ballot Measure 58[6], described in the bookAdoption Politics: Bastard Nation & Ballot Initiative 58 [7]by E. Wayne Carp (2004). They have members throughout the United States, Canada and the world[8].
The name is a reference to the fact that most adopted children were born illegitimate, hence are literally bastards. The term bastard is employed both for shock value, and in an effort to reclaim the term for common usage (as was done by the organization Queer Nation with the word queer).

3 comments:

  1. we have lot of foster home but number of couple that willing to take a foster kid in our country is low.that's why our citizen have to be more open and take adoption as their choice in obtaining children

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  2. it still new in Malaysia but our society is more open and more people consider to adopting babies as an alternative to have kids

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  3. yes.. now our peoples are trying to adapt with this new method..
    soon it wont be a problem

    priyaa (A134500)

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