ACT Ideas for Getting involved You’re a Tax-paying citizen – NOT a Second-class citizen! Educate yourself, your community, and your legislators. The Basic Bastard The basics of Adoptee Rights Activism. Read it to know the …
Continue readingFun for Bastards and Adoptees! Kick back and have a laugh. Some things you have to live to appreciate. 🙂 The BN Calendar!: 365 reasons you can’t have your birth records Legendary Bastards Bastard Verse …
Continue readingAdoptee Rights Issues, History and Law Most adult adoptees in the U.S. and Canada are denied legal access to their own original birth records and adoption decree. This is not the case in many places …
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Local Laws, Activism and Contacts Learn more about Adoption Rights History and Law Bastard Nation’s Mission Statement The Basic Bastard – a collection of short articles address the main issues and questions regarding Bastard Nation and adoptee …
Continue readingResearch, Roots and Reconnection Whether you want to search this site, the Internet, or are looking for information on your origins, this is the place to be. The decision whether or not to search is …
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Frequently Asked Questions Who runs Bastard Nation? Executive Commitee and Legislative Commitee page Bastard Nation Founding Foundings What’s with the name? The more than half-century old practice of impounding and sealing an adopted person’s …
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Continue readingThis 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 …
Continue readingMona 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 …
Continue readingBy 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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Bastard Nation is a proud partner organization in the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records
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