Mona Charen Mona Charen – Special Wednesday * February 23 Our prosperous, lively, comfortable nation is facing a sudden upsurge in a pmblem as ancient as leprosy — baby abandonment and murder. Tales of high-school …
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Groups seek to unite adoptees, birth parents
Monday, June 28, 1999Adoption Search Fair provides assistance to adopted children By Doug Margeson Journal Reporter BELLEVUE — Julie Dennis set up a table in Factoria Mall yesterday, offering information to adopted children who wanted …
Continue readingReunited mother and daughter enjoying their time together
By LORI MARTIN Staff Writer Together again. it’s a refrain Susan Thompson and her daughter, Betsy, are singing these days. Ever since they reunited July 10, after being separated for 32 years. The last time …
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Adoptees demand right to past Activists fight for access to their birth records, but mothers say they were promised anonymity. Now, two sides take battle to Ore. court. By Patrick McMahon USA TODAY MANZANITA, Ore. …
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Washington CityPaper Washington’s Free Weekly Vol. 19, No. 20 May 21-27, 1999 Illegitimate Complaints Veterans of a D.C. home for unwed pregnant women demonstrate for open adoption records. By Susan Gervasi In 1966, after two …
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By Jessica Branch Do adopted children have the right to know about their birth parents? Do you have a right to find your mother? Does she have the right to stop you? As courts and …
Continue readingDebate on birth records goes to court
Published on April 25, 1999 Debate on birth records goes to court Adoption activists say it’s their constitutional right to find out where they’re from By Gayle Vassar Melvin TIMES STAFF WRITER Adoption activists say …
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Pennsylvania already denies adoptees access to their birth records. Now activists are fighting a proposed law that would make it a crime to search for birth parents. by Frank Lewis The meeting occurred almost 20 …
Continue readingBirth rights: Woman’s search for her parents leads to a pivotal role in worldwide organization that champions adult adoptees
By DEBBIE BLOSSOM SUN Staff Writer There was a time when Pat Marler couldn’t even say the word “bastard.” Today, however, it slips easily into her conversations, and she even has a T-shirt that is printed with …
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Letters to the Editor March 10, 1999 Adoptees without rights I am proud to say that I am not a raving lunatic, and I’m sorry to disappoint you but I, for one, have never had …
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