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Touched by Adoption Forums
By: Admin Date: February 27, 2011, 4:52 pm
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About Adoption
Touched By Adoption exists for the purpose of education, and
cross triad communication. To this end, we provide information
about all facets of adoption. For some, adoption is an
experience of joyous celebration. For others, adoption is rife
with grief and pain. Most who are touched by adoption fall
somewhere in the middle.
Touched By Adoption does not represent either a pro or an anti
adoption stance. Our intention instead is to offer a glimpse
into the stories and personal truths of those touched by
adoption, whatever they may be.
The articles, posts and forum discussions you will find through
this site represent the opinions of the individual authors. We
are each responsible for our own statements - no one person
represents the totality of the Touched By Adoption position
regarding adoption. We provide links to other sites for the
purpose of educational resources only. Inclusion or exclusion of
a link to any website does not constitute an endorsement or
condemnation of that site or that site’s position on adoption.
We include links to sites whose positions on adoption topics
directly conflict with our stated mission for the purpose of
providing insight into the varied and contrasting opinions held
about adoption.
Touched By Adoption holds the following beliefs about adoption -
opinions and beliefs not specifically outlined below reflect the
opinions and beliefs of the individual authors only. This list
represents the spirit and mission behind the site as a whole and
does not necessarily reflect the personal beliefs of every user
of the site.
* We believe that the adoption industry in the United Kingdom
and United States of America is in desperate need of reform.
* We believe that profit should be completely eliminated from
adoption.
* We believe that serious and major reform is necessary on all
adoption practices including accredidation of agencies, adoption
facilitators, public and private foster care agencies, adoption
attorneys and all public and private “crisis pregnancy
counseling” centers and financial incentivesgiven to social
services to increase adoptions.
* We believe that all legislation and regulation of adoption and
adoption practices should be handled by the federal government,
not by the individual states (USA). It is our contention that
state level regulation allows far too many loopholes which are
often exploited by those who seek to profit from the current
archaic and often jumbled and conflicting adoption laws (USA).
That there should be an end to secrecy in the family courts when
dealing with adoption (UK)
* We believe that the adoption industry as a whole fails the
parents and children who are touched by adoption through limited
education, counseling, preparation, support and follow-up
resources.
* We believe adoptees are entitled to know their full identity
upon reaching adulthood.
* We believe that no government, no agency and no individual has
the right to deny an adoptee information about their identity at
birth (USA).
* We believe in full disclosure whenever possible to adoptive
parents of the identity of the child’s parents of origins as
part of the adoption process and paperwork. They should already
have that information on hand to turn over to the child on or by
the child’s 18th birthday.
* We believe adoption should always be about finding families
for children “in need,” and never about finding children for
families “in need.”
* We believe open adoption agreements should be legally binding
and legally enforceable.
* We believe equality is owed to fathers of origin wishing to
exercise their parental rights.
* We believe it is unethical and immoral for any person or
entity to engage in practices deliberately designed to deprive
fathers or mothers of their natural rights to their children.
* We believe in the total abolishment of privately owned non and
for-profit ‘maternity homes’ in which young women are housed for
the sole or primary purpose of bearing babies they will
relinquish.
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