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Feature Articles:
Why "Birthmother" Means "Breeder"
Biased Adoption Language

A Call to Natural Mothers

Were You Coerced?
Adoption - "Not by Choice"
Our Stories: Across Canada
What They Knew and Didn't Tell Us
Stillborn or Stolen??
Adoptees Speak Out
Search & Reunion Registry
"The Open Adoption Experiment"
Open Adoption? Modern-Day Coercion
Infant adoption: Big Business
 

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The term "birthmother" is used on this website for search engine purposes only. The word "birth mother" is a derogatory, degrading, and inhumane term, essentially meaning breeder or incubator. Origins Canada does NOT condone its use as a term for mothers separated from their children by adoption.

"Natural mother" was the term commonly in use until the adoption industry created terms like "birth mother" to tell us that we are no longer mothers. Natural mothers are more than this. We never signed away our love or our innate motherhood.

Words like "birth mother" give the impression that people can become "ex" family. You can have an ex-boyfriend, but you can never have an ex-child or become an ex-mother.

 

Adoption Search and Support Groups and Resources for Adoptees and Natural Family

1) Chapters of Origins International:
- Origins Inc New South Wales | Origins Australia online message board
- Origins Queensland
- Origins Victoria
- Origins Canada website | Origins Canada Email List
- Origins British Columbia
- Trackers International (U.K. Affiliate)

2) Other Support Groups for People Separated By Adoption:
- Adoption = Legalized Lies | Antiadoption List
- Abolish Adoption

- Transracial Abductees

- "Adopting-Back" Our Stolen Children (MSN Group)

    Join "Adopting-Back" Our Stolen Children    
Also see the website:
"Healing Dismembered Families"
 MSN Groups

3) Groups and Sites for searching/searchers:
- Canadian Adoptees Registry
- Canadopt
- Parent Finders of Canada
- International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR)

4) Open Records Lobbying
- Americans for Open Records (AmFOR)
- Annulling Adoptions
- Canadopt
- Mothers for Open Records Everywhere
- The Idea of Adoption: A History of Adoption Records
- Origins Canada
- The Open Record (newsletter)
- Prince Edward Island Adoption Abuses
- Sandy Musser: Adoption Author & Activist

- Adoption - Is Heritage a Human Right?

5) The Effects of Surrender on Exiled Mothers:
- Adoption and Loss: the Hidden Grief

- BIRTHMOTHERS.INFO
- Effects of Adoption on Mental Health of the Mother
- Dissociation and a Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Ignored Counselling Needs
- Inhumane Hospital Practices = Torture
- Shall I look at my baby?
- The Trauma of Relinquishment
- Mental Health References (Bibliography)

6) The NSW Parliamentary Inquiry:
- Extracts from Dr. Rickarby's Inquiry submission
- Continuation of Dr. Rickarby's Inquiry submission
- Dr. Rickarby Part Three
- Origins Response To The Inquiry
- Personal Submission To The NSW Enquiry
- Parliamentary Submission - Cameron Horn
- A Submission on Fathers Rights
- Story of a Son's Birth. A submission
- What Have We Called For

7) Effects of Adoption on Adoptees:
- "Adoption: Trauma that Last a Life Time"
- "THE PRIMAL WOUND - Legacy of the Adopted Child"
- "The Angry Adoptee"
- Mental Health of the Adopted Child
- Children Exploited By Adoption

- What They Knew But Ignored
- Youth Suicides - A Comparison
- "In Defence of 'THE PRIMAL WOUND'"
- "What Is The Primal Wound? Understanding The Trauma of Infant-Maternal Separation"
- "Relinquishment and Intimacy"
- "What Baby Brokers Won't Tell You About Adoptees and the Truth"
- The Primal Wound (author's website)
- Mental Health References (Bibliography)
- Transracial Abductees

9) Buying Humans: the Adoption Industry
- Infant Adoption is Big Business in America (117KB .pdf file)

- The Adoption Industry
- Advertising children
- Adoption - "The Goal of the Broker is Money"
- Human Rights Abuses - Then and Now
- Human Rights and Adoption
- Transracial Abductees
- Baby, Child Adoption Issues, Debate, News Articles - Modern-day adoption coercion exposed.

10) The Reality of Surrender - Real-Life Experiences
NEW! - STOLEN - Coming soon, the book is based on a true story
- OUT OF THE FOG: Mothers Speak About Adoption

- Adoption - "Not By Choice"
- How They Took Our Babies (a compilation)
- "How They Stole My Baby - Secrets and Lies of an Open Adoption"
- An Exiled Mother's Story
- Mothers In Exile
- Rapid Adoptions (were you told your baby died at birth?)
- The Ultimate DECEPTION
- A Daughter So Precious
- A Loss of Innocence
- A Lateline Response

11) Other Articles and sites:
- Adoptees and Natural Mothers - "The Respect We Never Got"
- Adoption - "View From The Back of the Bus"
- Adoption - Mothers in Exile
- "Adoption in Canada - in Whose Best Interest?"
- "The Daily Bastardette" (new)
- The 'Unwed' Mother - "Who Am I?"
- Dear Birthmother - What Baby Brokers won't tell you about Adoptees and the Truth

- Infant Adoption Awareness Training Must Be Outlawed

- Infant Adoption - Bush Admin Pushes Grabbing Babies From Poor Women so Wealthy Can Adopt
- Domestic Adoption Baby Boom Exploiting Women and Families in America
- Adopting Human Embryos - Embryo Adoption Study Flawed
- Pregnant, Unplanned Pregnancy? - A Mother's Song - Taking the crisis out of pregnancy. Many resources listed for mothers and fathers to help them keep their babies.
- Adult Adoption in BC: A Campaign for Fairness. Impacts natural families and adoptees in BC who want to re-establish their original legal relationship.

12) Human Rights Organizations:

The Nordic Committee for Human Rights (NCHR) - For the Protection of Family Rights in the Nordic countries

13) Links about legal assistance and legal rights of single parents. Note: These links do not imply a recommendation - it is up to the individual to determine whether to utilize this or any other assistance.

The A-team is made up of

  • Trial Consultants
  • Lawyers
  • Psychologists
  • Medical Doctors
  • Private Investigators
  • and others assembled for each individual case as needed to help those wrongly accused of child abuse, domestic violence, date rape, sexual harassment and other crimes that are gender or family related. And we also help on complex child custody cases, and those involving issues of interstate and international jurisdiction questions.

KRP Trial Consulting - defense in the area of false allegations of child sexual abuse, rape, sexual harassment, child abuse, domestic violence, child custody, international custody disputes, and related matters.

14) WARNING - Baby-brokers' sites!:
- www.adoption.com
- www.adoption.org
- www.adopting.com
- www.adopting.com
- www.adoptionforums.com
- www.birthparents.org
- www.adoptionnetwork.com
- www.americanadoptions.com
- www.gladney.org
- www.adoptionservices.net
- www.forums.adoption.com


"Adoptees have been the patsies and sacrificial lambs for years. We have been adopted to be the replacements for the children never born, for dead children, lost children and to fix another person's problems. The very heart of adoption is codependent as we must sacrifice our souls, our names and our identities to please the lives of strangers."
- Anne Patterson, reunited adoptee and professional searcher, from "The Goal of the Broker is Money" (offsite link)

 

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