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	<description>A Half Orphan&#039;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</description>
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		<title>New Letter to the Editor by Pam Hassegawa needs comments defending adoptees and natural parents</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/09/01/new-letter-to-the-editor-by-pam-hassegawa-needs-comments-defending-adoptees-and-natural-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Letter to the Editor by Pam Hassegawa needs comments defending adoptees and natural parents:
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201009010600/OPINION02/100830035
ACLU&#8217;s adoption stance out of character
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		<title>My Earliest Letters to the Editor and First Newspaper Interview: 1975 at age 19</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post will be a look back at my very earliest Letters to the Editor and very first newspaper interview, both taking place in late 1975 when I was a college student and only 19 years old.
The newspaper interview came first. It came about because I had started a local chapter of ALMA &#8211; Adoptees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Post: NCFA&#8217;s Stay At Home Gala 2009</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/08/20/re-post-ncfas-stay-at-home-gala-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>legitimatebastard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here are the links to my re-posts on NCFA and their blunders:
Response to NCFA’s “Mutual Consent: Balancing the Birthparent’s Right to Privacy with the Adopted Person’s Desire to Know” – Re-Post
and
Re-Post of Last Year’s Commemoration: Commentary on article “Anti-Adoption Advocates: How Should We Respond?”
 For added pizzazz in light of the recent email from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s Why UNICEF is Anti-Adoption</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/08/16/heres-why-unicef-is-anti-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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UNICEF&#8217;s position on Inter-country adoption
Since the 1960s, there has been an increase in the number of inter-country adoptions.  Concurrent with this trend, there have been growing international efforts to ensure that adoptions are carried out in a transparent, non-exploitative, legal manner to the benefit of the children and families concerned. In some cases, however, adoptions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invitation from Chuck Johnson and the NCFA: The anti-adoption community is working overtime&#8230;Stop them now</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/08/13/invitation-from-chuck-johnson-and-the-ncfa-the-anti-adoption-community-is-working-overtime-stop-them-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It came in my email inbox:
The anti-adoption community is working overtime.  Stop them now.
National Council For Adoption [ncfa@adoptioncouncil.org]
Thu 8/12/2010 11:43 AM



 


 






Dear Friend of Adoption,
 
At NCFA, we believe a nurturing, permanent family is every child’s birthright, yet there are those who actually oppose adoption and attack NCFA for our strong advocacy. In fact, the anti-adoption community [...]]]></description>
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