Adoptee Rights and Support
Organzations supporting the goals of family preservation and ethical adoption that offer support, activism and other resources for adopted persons.
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 Adoptees Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) Celebrating more 38 Years of Adoption Reunion and Reform, 1971 - 2009 170 Matches for 2008 and 151 for 2009 as of 10/26/2009 |
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Bastard Nation Bastard Nation advocates for the civil and human rights of adult citizens who were adopted as children. Millions of North Americans are prohibited by law from accessing personal records that pertain to their historical, genetic and legal identities. Such records are held by their governments in secret and without accountability, due solely to the fact that they were adopted. Bastard Nation campaigns for the restoration of their right to access their records. The right to know one's identity is primarily a political issue directly affected by the practice of sealed records adoptions. Please join us in our efforts to end a hidden legacy of shame, fear and venality. |
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Green Ribbon Campaign for Open Records Adoption records access is about equal rights Records access is NOT about search & reunion, relationships or inheritance. It's about identity! All we ask is for an unredacted copy of the legal and medical record of our birth. This is something most Americans take for granted but adoptees cannot access in most states. Long after we reach the age of 21, adoptees are treated as children by the law. Unable to participate in the decision that forever altered the course of our lives as children, we are, as adults, forbidden even to review the decisions that were made on our behalf, supposedly for our welfare. In some states, the biological parent who was persuaded to relinquish us as an infant is consulted to determine if we may know the truth of our origins. The facts of one's birth are among the most intimate details of one's life but if you are adopted, that information is closed to you in most states. Our mission is to change the status quo. |
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Kentucky Adoption Reform Equal Rights for Adoptees. Our Mission is to improve the laws for adoptees in Ky and allow access to the original birth certificate which is our civil rights just the same as anyone else. |
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New York Adoptees This Yahoo group is for NY adoptees, Siblings, and Parents searching. We also have other family members searching for loved ones. 1) Post your search information 2) Make the entry in the Database |
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Pound Pup Legacy Pound Pup Legacy exists because: * Too often children are not safe from the predatory practices of organizations that benefit from the placement of children. * Too often children are not being placed in safe homes or in safe institutions. * Too often children in care lack the secure safety net families usually provide, once they reach adulthood |
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Scattered Roots Support group for adoptees and birthparents. Based in Olympia, WA. Email: admin@scatteredroots.org |
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South Carolina Adoption Reform Let's work together to change the laws !!! RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE |
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The Registry: Yahoo group 'theregistry' is a moderated co-support list for searching adult adoptees, birth family members and *volunteer* searchers involved in ADULT adoptee searches. This is a valuable networking resource for adoptees searching for their birth families and birth family members seeking reunion. Its thru active searching that most find. Volunteer searchers are encouraged to join. Join to help and be helped. Adoptee/birth family search tips, questions and answers about searching and rejection / reunion issues. This is a huge caring community to provide your search info to. Members' profiles are private, only database entries, letters to the list, and archived posts are accessible by other members. |
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United Adoptees International The UAI is an organisation run and managed by adoptees. Foremost in the Netherlands but with great help and support from adoptees and adoptee supporting organisations worldwide. The UAI is a foundation focussing on helping Adoptees, data mining and reviewing and commenting on Human Rights issues endangering childrights everyday again. The UAI is not against adoption but against all the side effects which appears everyday in (internationa)l adoption. We believe, that (Intercountry) adoption should be a last resort for children in need for a family and not a third option and facility for childless couples in the West. If adoption is an option, than all the requirements for a tracable and correct adoption procedure should be fulfilled before any adoption is executed. The UAI became last few years an important opinion leader in the Netherlands and abroad in the field of Intercountry Adoption (ICA). |
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