This post has been a long time coming. I began thinking about writing it back in August, when Michael Brown’s killing in Feguson first hit the news, well before yesterday’s announcement that Eric Garner’s killer would not be charged with any crime. This post is about me, an average middle-aged white woman who grew up … Continue reading What an Average White Person Like Me Can Do About Racism
Yesterday on their Sunday Conversation segment, National Public Radio (NPR) aired an interview with a white, adoptive mother of three young black children, Rachel Garlinghouse. The angle for this interview was to discuss bias against mixed race adoptions in light of the recent controversy over comments made on the Melissa Harris-Perry show about Mitt Romney's … Continue reading Why NPR Got My Irish Up
I began composing this post a while ago and planned for it to be mainly a research-focused article highlighting the rights fathers do and do not have when it comes to their children being adopted out. Then the unfathomable happened: Dusten Brown was forced to relinquish his four-year-old daughter, Veronica, to the couple who have … Continue reading Fathers’ Rights in Adoption
The Adoptee Rights Coalition has organized a demonstration to take place today during the National Conference of State Legislators in Chicago. Specifically, they will be trying to open the legislators' eyes to the plight of adult adoptees in forty-four states who are not allowed to have a copy of their own original birth certificates. What … Continue reading Adoptee Rights Demonstration Today in Chicago
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