(Note: Since I changed formats, spacing has become an issue in some posts, and I can’t get it fixed) Since I was forced back into the job market at a time when most people my …
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Los Ninos Robados: Spain’s Catholic Church accused of selling thousands of newborns into adoption
I’ve been busy working on the new Bastard Nationwebpage. We lost quite a bit of material in the crash and burn, and I’m trying to reconstruct, but the more I get ahead, the further I get …
Continue readingAdoption Mystique now in eBook Form!
Good news! The Kindle version of the adoption class Adoption Mystique by Joanne Wolf Small, has just been released. You can find Nook here. By way of review, here is what I wrote about the …
Continue readingSome Thoughts on “The Angry Adoptee:” Gazillion Adoptees v JCIC$
Last we heard from our friend Kevin Ost-Vollmers,in the Land of a Gazillion Adoptees, he was engaged in a dialogue with the Congressional Coalition. That was ” bad” enough, but it gets worse. It must …
Continue readingCelebrate!
Welcome to the new Bastard Nation website! A new website has been a long time coming, so the crash and burn has a silver lining. We are most grateful to Emily Journey in Columbus, Ohio …
Continue readingOklahoma: HB 2634 passes House 93-0
Oklahoma clean bill HB 2634 passed the House yesterday with a 93-0 Vote. It now goes to the Senate. For more information go to the Oklahoma Open blog and Facebook. Thanks to all those Oklahomans who contacted House members! And …
Continue readingThe United States According to Bastard Nation
The BASTARDIZED states of Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota (July 1 2024), New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont are the only U.S. states where adult adoptees have unrestricted access to their own original birth records!
Continue readingWashington SUB 2211: Still dead. What happens next year?
It’s official. As we reported SaturdayWashington SUB HB 2211 is dead for this session. Although it’s still in the hopper, perennial bill killer, and bastard baiter Sen. Jim Hargrove, told 2211’s sponsor Rep. Tina Orwall that …
Continue readingWashington SUB HB 2211: The testimony Bastard Nation would have submitted
TESTIMONY SUB HB 2211: Adoptee access to their own original birth certificates Washington Senate Human Services and Corrections Committee xxxx, 2012 OPPOSE Privilege is the opposite of rights Our Washington representative may not be able …
Continue readingMother and Child Reunion
This letter appears on pp 21-22 of the Sept/Oct 2000 Offspring: MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION We found it a matter of great regret that your article featuring our organization, Bastard Nation, and Marley Greiner, its …
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