A Half Orphan's Account of Her Adoption, Reunion and Social Activism * * * book, website and blog by Joan M Wheeler, BA, BSW, adoptee, author, activist * * * Promoting Adoption Reform Since 1974
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ISBN: 9781412061544
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Elevator Pitch
She's a legitimate half orphan bastardized by adoption. An adoptee, found by her natural family, discovers and exposes a web of secrets and lies. Why was her birth certificate sealed and falsified by laws meant to hide bastards?
Included Inside:
Included inside:
Author's sealed Original Birth Certificate, Amended (false) Birth Certificate, true Baptismal Certificate, false Baptismal Certificate, sealed adoption records, Social Work Assessment, and author's proposal for Federal legislative change.
How did I get my Original Birth Certificate?
My natural father gave my OBC to my adopting parents when he relinquished me to them in 1956. My adoptive mother threw my birth certificates and adoption papers at me when I was 18 years old just days after I was found by siblings she did not want me to ever know.
Why I Promote Adoption Reform:
Even though I have had my OBC in my possession since 1974, I am still legally banned from receiving a certified copy of my true birth certificate from New York State.
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My legal birth certificate says I was born to a woman who actually adopted me. All adoptees have legally falsified birth certificates.
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All adoptees should have unrestricted access to their certified and true birth certificate.
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Automatically issuing falsified birth certificates upon the finalization of adoption should be illegal. Falsified birth certificates should be replaced by truthful Certificates of Adoption.
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All natural parents should receive a birth certificate for the daughter or son they created and gave birth to.
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Siblings should never be permanently separated by adoption.
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Adoptive Parents should never lie to their adoptees about the serious truth of one's birth and existing siblings, and all known details of that adoptee's life, including the knowledge of parental death for timely and appropriate grieving.
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Adoption should be replaced by Family Preservation and Guardianship. See Website Pages under "Adoption Prevention" for more info.
Return Adult Adoptees the Right to Their Original Birth Certificates
Open All Adoption Records! Join FACEBOOK group to go where Change.org's voting and discussion left off! We WILL change the Laws to get our Original Birth Certificates! The fire started for a NATIONAL Change in our favor!
Stop Sealing and Falsifying Adoptees’ Birth Certificates
Change Vital Statistics Law: Insist on Accurate Documentation
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We Need Universal Standardized Birth Certificates and Adoption Certificates
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1 Birth Certificate + 1 Adoption Certificate = Adoption Truth
Why do you have to be so negative? Aren’t the children better off?”
“This ‘better off’ argument is like justifying a rape because it produced a healthy baby. When the rich of the world use their power and money to take away the children of the poor, it is a crime, not a humanitarian act. “The ‘see no evil’, the ‘children are better off’ attitudes of the adoption community make the adoption system vulnerable to systematic child trafficking schemes.”
- - - David M. Smolin, an adoptive father and Law & Ethics Professor at Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
For Families in Crisis, Promote these Priorities:
1 - Family Preservation
2 - Reunification
3 - Kinship Care
4 - Guardianship
NOT Adoption
WARNING!
This website may be hazardous to your health! Extreme, hard-core social work and activism practiced here. If you don't like what you read, don't come back. If you are here to experience change, you are in the right place.
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Anger at the adoption system that made this International Adoption Reform Movement necessary can be expressed appropriately. No racist, slanderous or personal attacks will be posted.
Adoption Reformers know our opposition. Remember to build or attack the message, not the messenger.
The Penitent (The Magdalene Laundries)
NDW: Vital Records: The Debate on Adoptee Rights Pt 1
NDW: Vital Records: The Debate on Adoptee Rights Pt 2
NDW: Vital Records: The Debate on Adoptee Rights Pt 3
William H. Mild III, retired attorney, forwarded this PDF version of his May 18, 2009 article: Due Process in Adoption? Hardly. This may be freely distributed.
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