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LANGUAGE OF ADOPTION “Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”   Desmond Tutu   “Birthmothers” are a social construction.   The term “birthmother” was devised by adoption professionals to reduce a natural mother to that of a biological function relegating her to the status of “non mother”. This […]

Common Coercion Methods Used  Below is a list of some common practices used systemically by the adoption industry as means of obtaining babies for adoption. Many of these methods may have been applied to you by adoption agencies, social workers, clergy, nurses, nuns, clergy, doctors, social service agencies, and others with a vested interest in […]

By Jess DelBalzo and Bryony Lake In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood depicted a futuristic society in which fertile young women were held captive and used to bear children for sterile, upper-class wives. The scenario sounds extreme, but sadly, it is not as fictional as one might hope. Vulnerable young women fall victim to reproductive […]

By Laurie Frisch When trying to approach people with my concerns about adoption and it’s effects on adoptees and natural mothers, I have been stymied by the response. Churches, pro-lifers, feminists and others had difficulty comprehending why adoption surrender (really, surrendering all parental rights is not an “adoption”) as obtained today in the United States […]

OPEN ADOPTION RECORDS Origins Canada advocates for adoption disclosure legislation in all provinces and territories of Canada that provides adopted adults unrestricted access to their original birth certificate, and unrestricted access to identifying information on their natural parents.  Origins Canada also advocates for adoption disclosure legislation that provides natural mothers unrestricted access to the original […]

Websites The Baby Scoop Era Initiative Adopting Back Adoption Crossroads ASK American Adoption Congress Bastard Nation Forget Me Not Family Society Mouvement Retrouvailles Parent Finders The Vance Twins ACT – Against Child Trafficking Blogs of Interest Family Preservation Blogspot Birth Mother/First Mother Forum Musings of the LameNote: An extensive list of Adoptee and Mother blogs […]

In Canada, we don’t normally think of adoption as being an industry. For most Canadians this would be an idea that would be uncomfortable, not in our image, not the Canadian way. But the fact is that it is an industry in Canada, and it is an industry that is growing in double digits. And, […]

Adoptee Rights Government Apologies for Those Separated by Adoption Assisted Reproductive Technologies Family Preservation Legal and Ethical Protection of Expectant and New Mothers Mother’s Day and “Birthmother’s” Day Open Records Reproductive Exploitation

Origins Canada supports the legal and ethical protection of expectant and new mothers from reproductive exploitation during pregnancy, labour, delivery, and post-partum. In order to ensure this protection, three elements must be present: The human rights of the mother must be upheld. The mother must be able to give informed consent. Adoption transactions must be free […]

When I hear people talk about our “choice to relinquish” – I want them to know that for many of us, there was no choice. It was 1980 and I was 17 years old when I gave birth to my first child. I was single, a grade-twelve student in high school. I had been hidden […]