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	<title>Forbidden Family &#187; adoption awareness</title>
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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>Do You &#8220;Believe&#8221; in Adoption?</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/04/01/do-you-believe-in-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>legitimatebastard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoptee Birth Certificates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoptee False Legal Birth Certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoptees' Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the question put before me from the hairstylist as she cut and styled my hair yesterday.
I answered, &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t.&#8221;
She was surprised.
I told her my story, and especially highlighted about the unwarranted government sealing and falsifying of my &#8212; and all adoptees&#8217; &#8212; birth certificates. This got her attention. She did not know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on the British Parliament for Upholding Gay Rights as the Political Correct Action on Birth Certificates for the Donor-Conceived</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/03/31/shame-on-the-british-parliament-for-upholding-gay-rights-as-the-political-correct-action-on-birth-certificates-for-the-donor-conceived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>legitimatebastard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baby Has Two Sets of Parents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[True Birth Certificate for Donor-Conceived]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a new article published in United Kingdom’s Daily Mail: Mothers and fathers disappear from birth certificates to allow homosexual couples to be named as parents, article by Steve Doughty, 29th March 2010.
This story differs from the American story of two gay men being named on their adopted son’s birth certificate. That was a “victory” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congrats to Mara for Publication of “Sealed Away” Article Highlighting The Census&#8217; Discrimination Against Adoptees</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/03/29/congrats-to-mara-for-publication-of-%e2%80%9csealed-away%e2%80%9d-article-highlighting-the-census-discrimination-against-adoptees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>halforphan56</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoptee Birth Certificates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoptee False Legal Birth Certificate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adoption Loss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race and Adoption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[falsified Certificate of Live Birth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural family systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[need for change in adoption law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mara’s tenacity paid off.
I’m glad to re-print her published letter in the Times-Standard (serving Eureka and California’s North Coast) here. It is a testimony as to the generational effects of adoption’s sealed and falsified birth certificates for adoptees. Coincidentally, Mara’s article  was published previously here as “Guest Post: Census Rant”.
http://www.times-standard.com/letters/ci_14754681
Sealed away
Letters to the Editor
Posted: 03/25/2010 02:10:17 AM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Today For Adoptees&#8217; Civil Rights to their Original Birth Certificates, Even if You are Living in a Foreign Country</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/03/09/vote-today-for-adoptees-civil-rights-to-their-original-birth-certificates-even-if-you-are-living-in-a-foreign-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>halforphan56</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[VOTE TODAY FOR ADOPTEES' CIVIL RIGHTS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
This Idea for Change in America: Return Adult Adoptees the right to their Original Birth Certificates, is now down to 13th place. We need to be in the Top 10 for this Idea to be presented to President Obama and his administration. We have until Friday March 12th at 5pm to vote.
Click the link below to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth, Honesty, and the American Way</title>
		<link>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/02/16/truth-honesty-and-the-american-way/</link>
		<comments>http://forbiddenfamily.net/2010/02/16/truth-honesty-and-the-american-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>halforphan56</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoptee Birth Certificates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[need for change in adoption law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noncertified cpy of adoptee's original birth certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orphans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my letter to the South Dakota Senators (see previous post) asking them to vote yes to the Bill allowing access to adoptees for a noncertified copy of their original birth certificates, I couldn’t help but notice the following:
When a new certificate of birth is established pursuant to §§ 34-25-15 to 34-25-16.2, inclusive, the [...]]]></description>
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