@adopteeantonia.bsky.social
Baby Scoop Era Adoptee. I adored my late adoptive parents and massively love my adoptive family, but I support working towards family preservation wherever possible. Poverty should NOT be a reason for a person to lose their entire family.
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This story breaks my heart and enrages me. 🥚💔
Hey #adopteesky
Let's rally around this fellow adoptee and remind Jonah that he's not alone.
Let's affirm to him that his life matters.
Let's show him that the adoptee community supports him!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...
Let's rally around this fellow adoptee and remind Jonah that he's not alone.
Let's affirm to him that his life matters.
Let's show him that the adoptee community supports him!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...
March 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This story breaks my heart and enrages me. 🥚💔
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“They are too young to articulate what is going on inside them, but adult adoptees looking back in sorrow as much as in anger, understand what they did to survive.” That hits like a Mac truck going 70 down the freeway. 😭
February 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“They are too young to articulate what is going on inside them, but adult adoptees looking back in sorrow as much as in anger, understand what they did to survive.” That hits like a Mac truck going 70 down the freeway. 😭
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it undoubtedly soothes the baby-buying class’s conscience to believe that the adoptable children are the ones whose “birth mothers” decided they actually preferred to lose all legally protected contact with their—“birth children”?—forever
February 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it undoubtedly soothes the baby-buying class’s conscience to believe that the adoptable children are the ones whose “birth mothers” decided they actually preferred to lose all legally protected contact with their—“birth children”?—forever
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it would be cool if hopeful adopters paused to ask themselves if they would ever choose for their own child what they are hoping that a “birth mother” will choose, and to ask how they feel about participating in & benefiting from a system that corners vulnerable people into making that “choice”
February 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
it would be cool if hopeful adopters paused to ask themselves if they would ever choose for their own child what they are hoping that a “birth mother” will choose, and to ask how they feel about participating in & benefiting from a system that corners vulnerable people into making that “choice”
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The point is that you can’t transact with the baby-buying and family-destroying business without a fair degree of Othering of those on the other side of the transaction.
February 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The point is that you can’t transact with the baby-buying and family-destroying business without a fair degree of Othering of those on the other side of the transaction.
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While I've had the Gordon Neufeld experience on more than one occasion, that the book addresses all three points of the traditional adoption triad makes it suspect to me.
The adoption triad is an obtuse, scalene triangle and ignores the larger constellation.🥚
The adoption triad is an obtuse, scalene triangle and ignores the larger constellation.🥚
February 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
While I've had the Gordon Neufeld experience on more than one occasion, that the book addresses all three points of the traditional adoption triad makes it suspect to me.
The adoption triad is an obtuse, scalene triangle and ignores the larger constellation.🥚
The adoption triad is an obtuse, scalene triangle and ignores the larger constellation.🥚
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Thank you, @adopteesunited.bsky.social! 🧡🧡🧡
Adoptees United will be holding an open forum to talk about and answer questions concerning immigration and US citizenship for transnational adoptees on February 12. I'll answer questions and talk about what I'm seeing so far. More info/registration:: adopteesunited.org/open-forum-i...
Open Forum on Immigration Issues for Transnational Adoptees | Adoptees United
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February 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thank you, @adopteesunited.bsky.social! 🧡🧡🧡
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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
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February 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We will never stop fighting!
Trump backed down.
This is a win. It's what happens when we fight back.
This is a win. It's what happens when we fight back.
January 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We will never stop fighting!
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Tick Tock. The old fashioned kind. ⏳
That time arrived a long while ago. The question now is whether Democratic leaders fully understand and will act accordingly.
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Tick Tock. The old fashioned kind. ⏳
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They’re eating the Dogs
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
They’re eating the Dogs
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people just take it as a bland vanilla fact that the #adoption industry exists to give people a way to become parents, but they never stop to consider all the ways that vulnerable ppl and their offspring are disempowered, exploited, and stripped of their basic rights to make this industry possible.
January 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
people just take it as a bland vanilla fact that the #adoption industry exists to give people a way to become parents, but they never stop to consider all the ways that vulnerable ppl and their offspring are disempowered, exploited, and stripped of their basic rights to make this industry possible.
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instead of “how much she must have loved you to give you up” why not try “how sick must a society be to leave her with no choice but to relinquish her own child to strangers” 🧾
you: but adoption gets kids out of terrible situations
generations of social workers:
generations of social workers:
January 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
instead of “how much she must have loved you to give you up” why not try “how sick must a society be to leave her with no choice but to relinquish her own child to strangers” 🧾
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#adoption is built upon permanent severance: the total and irreversible legal estrangement of a person from their entire natal family. Critics of the family policing system call this “the family death penalty.”
We say adoption benefits children, but how does the permanence of severance do that?
We say adoption benefits children, but how does the permanence of severance do that?
January 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
#adoption is built upon permanent severance: the total and irreversible legal estrangement of a person from their entire natal family. Critics of the family policing system call this “the family death penalty.”
We say adoption benefits children, but how does the permanence of severance do that?
We say adoption benefits children, but how does the permanence of severance do that?
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If adoption centers the interests of the adoptee, then why can’t the adoptee, at least at the age of majority, choose to end the fictive familial relationship?
Why can’t we annul our adoptions?
Why can’t we annul our adoptions?
January 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If adoption centers the interests of the adoptee, then why can’t the adoptee, at least at the age of majority, choose to end the fictive familial relationship?
Why can’t we annul our adoptions?
Why can’t we annul our adoptions?
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When bio moms relinquish their parental rights they can not have the child back.
When adoptees are adopted, they can not annul, change, or edit their adoption contracts.
But why can adopters change their minds, rehome, and get a refund?
#adopteevoices #adopteerights
When adoptees are adopted, they can not annul, change, or edit their adoption contracts.
But why can adopters change their minds, rehome, and get a refund?
#adopteevoices #adopteerights
January 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
When bio moms relinquish their parental rights they can not have the child back.
When adoptees are adopted, they can not annul, change, or edit their adoption contracts.
But why can adopters change their minds, rehome, and get a refund?
#adopteevoices #adopteerights
When adoptees are adopted, they can not annul, change, or edit their adoption contracts.
But why can adopters change their minds, rehome, and get a refund?
#adopteevoices #adopteerights