Adoptee Advocates of Michigan
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AAOM works to elevate the voices of Michigan adoptees and support the adoptee community through education, outreach, and legislative advocacy to restore adoptee rights. https://linktr.ee/Adoptee_Advocates_Of_Michigan
Join Susan Christin tonight for our free workshop to get your birth information from the state of Michigan. 🥚 www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-app...
How To Apply For Your Michigan Birth Information, Adoptee Workshop
A free online workshop for Michigan adult adopted people wanting their identifying & non-identifying birth information, including their OBC.
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I'm currently not recommending U.S. domestic air travel for intercountry adoptees unless it is 1) necessary and 2) they have a U.S. passport. More details. Please read carefully. 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/advisory-do-...
ADVISORY: Do Not Fly | ARLC
Intercountry adoptees should use caution and possess a US passport book or card when flying within the United States.
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Michigan adoptees, your vote matters. Let’s make sure the candidates who support adoptee rights get into office. (Graphic credit: MI Sec of State Dept)
Since February, 437 new cases alleging human rights violations in South Korea's overseas adoption system have been filed, including mothers who were told their babies had died, only to learn decades later that they had been sent abroad for adoption. buff.ly/dXS2QiN 🥚
How Korea's birth mothers are exposing the hidden cost of overseas adoption - The Korea Times
Korea’s 3rd Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) crossed its 100-day milestone earlier this month, revealing that 437 new cases detailing huma...
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Free workshop this upcoming Tuesday for those needing adoption/birth information from the state of Michigan. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-app...
How To Apply For Your Michigan Birth Information, Adoptee Workshop
A free online workshop for Michigan adult adopted people wanting their identifying & non-identifying birth information, including their OBC.
eventbrite.com
A Kentucky woman is searching for her birth parents. Her story reflects a broader reality for adoptees everywhere, who continue to seek answers about who they are and where they come from, no matter how long it takes. www.maysville-online.com/news/111160/... 🥚
Local woman searching for birth parents
For LaTressa Jones, the search is on for information about her biological parents and she has reason to believe she has relatives in Maysville. Jones, 35, grew up in Maysville as the adopted child of…
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As our nation marks its 250th anniversary today, the promise of liberty and justice is still something countless people are hoping to fully experience. Today, we stand in solidarity with everyone whose rights, dignity, and equality have yet to be fully recognized.🥚
Sarah Elise Hager, 39, of Port Huron, Michigan pleaded guilty to four counts of child abuse and torture of a foster boy and girl between 2017 and 2021. Hager faces a 6–10 year prison sentence, while the children may carry the impact of the abuse for a lifetime. buff.ly/4KWito2 🥚
St. Clair County woman accused of locking foster children in dog cages to serve 6-10 years in prison
Sarah Elise Hager pleaded guilty to child abuse and torture in May
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Once targeted by Holt for overseas adoption, Meeky now helps Korean adoptees reconnect with their families and reclaim their identities through her non profit and calls for a government apology. buff.ly/3dMXeBv 🥚
Mixed-race daughter Korea tried to send away is now helping adoptees return home - The Korea Times
“578 Ganeung 3-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province. 3-tong, 2-ban,” she said in Korean. Meeky Woo Flippen, now 60, still has that address etched int...
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Northern Ireland Report Calls for Mandatory Release of Hidden Records to compel religious orders, health trusts, and other institutions to release their records, bringing survivors and adoptees one step closer to truth and accountability. buff.ly/lYxU3iU 🥚
Report to expose secrets of ‘baby farming’ at private NI nursing home
A secret history of ‘baby farming’ at one private nursing home in Northern Ireland is to be laid bare in a major report next month.
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Reunions aren't always the ending people imagine. This deeply personal essay explores the joy, grief, and complexity of finding a birth father, only to lose him again, reminding us that reunion is often the beginning of a new journey, not the end. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... 🥚
Finding My Birth Father and Losing Him Again
An adoptee and therapist shares the pain of finding her birth father only to lose him again, and the healing journey beyond reunion rejection.
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Bethany Christian Services has faced scrutiny over recent policy changes limiting LGBTQ participation in foster care placements. Public funding should guarantee equal treatment, yet protections for LGBTQ foster youth now vary depending on agency policy and religious affiliation. buff.ly/NOgpvyp 🥚
Press Release: Congresswoman Hillary Scholten Announces $3.8 Million in Federal Funding for Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids | Stock News
Congresswoman Scholten announced $3.8 million in federal funding for Bethany Christian Services supp
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As New Mexico adopts a policy requiring the removal of drug-exposed newborns, Native tribes, physicians, and child welfare advocates warn that automatic removal prioritizes separation over family preservation and risks repeating the very harms the ICWA was designed to prevent. buff.ly/fPVPrhb 🥚
‘Native children belong in Native communities’: tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule
Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removals
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How many biological fathers were never informed of pregnancies, adoptions, or children they might have wanted to parent? Decades after adoption separated them, an adoptee and her birth father reunited, and her adult adoption declared: if I had known, I would have chosen you. buff.ly/FuQ9n11 🥚
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On January 27, 2023, shortly after sharing a video about the pain of being separated from her children, a 32-year-old Ojibway woman named Tara took her life. 1/13 globalnews.ca/news/9474610...
An Indigenous mother took her life after child welfare took her kids. What can be done? | Globalnews.ca
A Manitoba mother of four posted a video online calling out the child welfare system for apprehending her children as she fled domestic abuse. Soon after, she took her own life.
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The tragic death of Preston Davey has sparked growing public concern about what happens to children after adoption. Calls are mounting for stronger oversight and accountability in the system, including a proposed “Preston’s Law” aimed at preventing similar failures in the future. c.org/9FGbcHLP5F 🥚
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Introduce 'Preston's Law': Mandatory Safeguarding for Every Adopted Child
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FRONTLINE and Retro Report: an investigation into the for-profit adoption industry's use of "baby brokers," featuring a Michigan birth mother/adoptee. Directed and produced by Sarah Weiser. Written and reported by Gabrielle Glaser and Sarah Weiser. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... 🥚
Baby Brokers | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct?
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For decades, mothers and adoptees have spoken about the coercion, shame, secrecy, and lifelong trauma surrounding historical adoption practices. The Church of England is now acknowledging its role in separating mothers from their children and the lasting harm that resulted. buff.ly/H2pNGlA 🥚
Apology for the Church of England's role in historical adoption practices | Archbishop of Canterbury
The Church of England has apologised for its role in historical adoption practices, particularly in mother and baby homes. Mothers and adoptees who came into contact with these homes have described…
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Based on responses from nearly 3,500 adoptees and adopters, Adoption UK's found family optimism at a record low. The charity is calling for a legal duty to provide needs-based support and better record access for adult adoptees reconnecting with birth family. www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...
When relatives came forward willing to raise an infant relinquished through Colorado’s Safe Haven law, the court prioritized “anonymity” over family preservation for legal purposes. But DNA testing exists, despite the court’s total lack of care for the child’s interests. buff.ly/EjXqp7y 🥚
Divided Colorado Supreme Court finds parental anonymity in ‘safe haven’ law
Parents who surrender their newborns under Colorado’s “safe haven” law are entitled to anonymity and confidentiality in any subsequent adoptive proceedings involving the child, the state Supreme…
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After growing up with emotionally distant adoptive parents and decades without answers about his origins, a DNA test revealed at age 64 that he had four biological brothers. The discovery brought a new sense of belonging, healing and connection. buff.ly/9ysSrrT 🥚
After months of deportation threats, an adoptee who spent more than 50 years in the U.S. was granted asylum. Outdated adoption and immigration laws continue to leave some intercountry adoptees vulnerable decades later through no fault of their own. buff.ly/P8YmRhU 🥚
Judge grants asylum to woman adopted by a US veteran from Iran after deportation threats
A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted by an American war veteran, who immigration officials threatened earlier this year with deportation…
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After nearly 60 years of unanswered questions, an adoptee's search for his origins uncovered a long-hidden family secret and led to a reunion with his biological father. Their story is a reminder that the desire to know where we come from does not disappear with age. buff.ly/VtSfAHp 🥚
60-year secret: An adopted son’s search for the father who had no idea he existed
Marion Probert's son lost his father in a plane crash. He found his birth father nearly 60 years later.
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Jessica and Jason Klimp were sentenced yesterday in Wexford County, after pleading no contest to first-degree child abuse of their adopted children where they starved them and kept them in cages. Both were sentenced in Tennessee as well as Michigan, and lost all parental rights. buff.ly/Yy2SU2w 🥚
Content Warning: Child abuse, sexual abuse, and child death Preston (14 months) should have been safe, but after a “strict and rigorous” agency approval process, adoption placed him in a home where he endured months of abuse before being killed by his adoptive fathers. 🥚
Teacher guilty of abusing and murdering adopted baby boy
Preston Davey died after months of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of Jamie Varley.
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Sofia reflects on the lifelong search for biological truth, identity, and family history, describing the confusion and loss that can persist when information about one's own origins remains inaccessible and the emotional burden adoptees carry when forced to fight for answers. buff.ly/YMZK4A4 🥚
Sofia Nordgren on Adoption, Identity, and Searching for Biological Truth
“What makes the situation even more painful is that my story remains incomplete. It is still filled with confusion. In some ways, I feel abandoned all over again because I have had to pay relatives…
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After the suicide of the daughter she adopted, an adoptive mother and birth mother united to walk the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in tribute to their shared daughter, Emma Katsman, reflecting on who she was and how adoption reunions contribute to healing even after profound loss. buff.ly/EqKFWVi 🥚
'Mama, You Can Do It': Adoptive mother, birth mother unite on walk through Europe in tribute to daughter - The Record
When Anne West decided to undergo the 500-mile Camino de Santiago — a walk from France across northern Spain — for her daughter, she knew it would be a deeply personal experience. “I never imagined…
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Sealed records don't preserve privacy. They shift the disclosure from a controlled release of a birth record to a DNA-based investigation that can involve multiple unsuspecting relatives, and parents can be found with only one distant relative in the database. 🥚
As Andrew and Kellie Warrington face child endangerment and abuse charges of their adopted child, the first mother is speaking out. “They got put into a home with monsters,” she says, questioning a system that separates families when support and preservation may have been better. buff.ly/KP2sEY0 🥚
QC adoptive parents arrested: Biological mom speaks out
A Clinton woman wonders what she can do after a couple who adopted her biological children are accused of abusing one of them. The adoptive parents from Davenport are charged with child endangermen…
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