"The Cause" - Part II

[blessed3times]

Hopefully all my friends interested in adoption reform have read my journal post from last week.  (If not please do!)

Soooo, I still feel the same way, my anger has not lessened.

I heard privately tonight from yet another mom whose open adoption was slammed shut in her face.

How do I channel this energy of wanting to help?!

How did my activist friends get started?  Please tell me!

I think I have maybe helped a little here on Cafemom but I know many of you direct your energies elsewhere.  The question is where?

And are those places welcoming to adoptive parents?

Please direct me - either here or in a private message.

 

[Southernroots]

Jan. 6, 2008 at 2:30 AM

Ah, yes, of course I have! There are many places and groups. Here are two forums:

About.com - has a forum and articles. The group guide who handles the forums is an adoptive mom whose mother was a birth mom. She reunited with a sister a few years back.
http://adoption.about.com/

Adoption.com - has many adoption related forums as well. 
http://community.adoption.com/

Favorite groups that fight for adoption reform are:

Ethica  http://www.ethicanet.org

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/index.php

American Adoption Congress http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org/

ALL welcome adoptive parents. In fact, there are many aparents in all these groups. I began with CUB http://www.cubirthparents.org/ and then started writing and getting articles published.

[mom2bonnie]

Jan. 6, 2008 at 9:36 AM I guess I never really realized the corruption of the system since I was fortunate to have my child go to some of the most wonderful and loving people I've ever known.  I wonder if maybe there is a way for us to get involved in the agencies as well.  Something like mentoring or talking with prospective aparents abt the importance of the bparents' relationships with the children and to help combat the preconceived notion that if they keep the bparents involved they will somehow steal the child back... thank you for sparking this... I will def be seeing what I might be able to do as a bmom here in my community!!

[Momzilla4]

Mar. 19, 2008 at 5:16 PM

This group is run by adoptive parents: "Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform" and may be what you're looking for:  http://pear-now.blogspot.com/