Activist, Search, Support Links Kenya bans child adoption by foreign nationals. Global News Networks. September 12, 2019 The baby stealers, BBC, November 15, 2020 Kenya arrests four more after BBC Africa Eye baby stealers …
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Legislation 2021
We do all the tedious work so you don’t have to. All information is taken from official state legislative pages unless otherwise indicated. We also link each bill to LegiScan, an easy way to …
Continue reading2020 Legislative Roundup
National Adoption Awareness Month is winding down, and today is a good time to post a round-up of 2020 legislative action –if you can call it action. In this Year of Covid-19 it is unlikely that any action, other than the slow death by sine die (adjournment of the session without action) will take place on any of the few remaining bills. If something does move, I will amend this later and repost it at the end of the year.
Continue readingUpdate on OBC Access and Orders–NEW YORK STATE
NYARC has received the following update on the status of orders to the New York State Department of Health. This does NOT include orders made to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. We have repeatedly requested an update from New York City but to date have not received further information.
Continue reading‘INTEGRATED’ BIRTH CERTIFICATES. WHY BASTARD NATION OPPOSES THEM
Recently there has been discussion about a new form of birth certificate: the “integrated birth certificate.” The document would include the identifying information of biological and adoptive parents, and possibly surrogacy and other high tech …
Continue readingOireachtas Member Responses to BN Letter Regarding Mother and Baby Home Archives
Gmail is not copy and paste friendly. I have cut and pasted responses, and cut out as much extraneous “computer junk” as i could.. Original emails are archived on the BN gmail account.–Marley Gary …
Continue readingBastard Nation Letter to the Oireachtas
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 @BastardsUnite October 14, 2020 Dear …
Continue readingAction Alert: URGENT: MOTHER AND BABY HOMES COMMISSION ARCHIVE/BASTARD NATION LETTER
This means that no-one will be able to access their personal records from the Minister’s archive, or information in his archive about their disappeared relatives or babies who are buried in unmarked graves.
All of the administrative files, which show how the abusive system of forced family separation was run, will also be withheld.
Continue readingNorway
Activist, Search, and Reunion Links The Adoption Act: Act of 16 June 2017 No. 48 relating to adoption Human Rights Court criticises adoption case from Norway. Transparency Project, September 20, 2019 Norway’s Hidden …
Continue readingUniform Law Commission – Unregulated Transfers of Adopted Children — Rehoming
The re-homing of inter-country adoptees is one of adoption’s dirty but open little secrets today. Although we know of no major study on the subject, unregulated re-homing has been covered by a series of articles …
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Bastard Nation is a proud partner in the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with Equality for Adoption, Gladney Adoptees for Rights and Equality, and the Adoptee Rights Law Center. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records