The Adoption Experience Lynn Grubb
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- Society & Culture
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One Adoptees Story growing up adopted in the closed era.
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What’s Happening in Adoptionland?
ASAC conference:
https://www.adoptionandculture.org/conference
Untangling Our Roots:
https://righttoknow.us/communityevent/untangling-our-roots-summit-2024/
Operation Fog Lift:
https://open.substack.com/pub/therealadopteamoxie/p/adoption-new-york-city-fieriness?r=1pbwya&utm_medium=ios
Relinquished book:
https://www.relinquishedbook.com/
Adoption Unfiltered book:
https://adoptionunfiltered.com/
The Last Daughter movie trailer:
https://youtu.be/VApJQrN7hN0?si=kpVDMq_c42CAdb3Z
The Last Daughter book:
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-last-daughter
Black Cake (Hulu) trailer:
https://youtu.be/aHEF2D8yMes?si=p7OyvW9RwbZevdrt
Lifemark movie:
https://lifemarkmovie.com/
Little Bird (Amazon Prime):
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Bird-Season-1/dp/B0CJK3KYYN
Simon Benn Facebook Poll:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TtedicYg56DWeWNh/?mibextid=WC7FNe
Conceiving Christian America (Embryo Adoption):
Book:
https://nyupress.org/9781479818594/conceiving-christian-america
Intro podcast with Ande at The Adoption Files:
https://theadoptionfilescom.wordpress.com/2024/02/25/conceiving-christian-america-introducing-a-new-series-on-snowflake-adoption/
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National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM)
*Adoptee Tik Tok
*Legislative Summit 2023 in Indianapolis
* Concerned United Birth Parents retreat 2023
*Celia Center adoption conference Nov 10, 11 2023
*Adoptee Rights 101
*Real ID complications (and passport update!)
*Adoptee Remembrance Day- 11/30/23
*National Adoption Awareness Month
Show Notes:
NAAP Adoption Happy Hour:
https://naapunited.org/adoption-happy-hour
Preorder the book: "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood."
https://www.amazon.com/Relinquished-Politics-Adoption-Privilege-Motherhood/dp/1250286778/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2A50CHXAVR2JZ&keywords=relinquished%3A+The+politics+of+adoption&qid=1699013928&s=books&sprefix=relinquished+the+politics+of+adoption%2Cstripbooks%2C74&sr=1-1
Celia Center adoption conference:
https://celia-center-adoption-constellation.mn.co/plans/339536?bundle_token=9059baf90d541a7b894e633227303955&utm_source=manual%20noopener
Real ID Debaucle:
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-burning-question-will-the-government-finally-decide/id1598023322?i=1000633287479
Adoptee Remembrance Day Virtual Candlelight Vigil (10/30/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uun76F2JQpE&ab_channel=UnravelingAdoption-podcastandotherresources
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Saving Our Sisters From Unnecessary Adoption
Learn about the nonprofit that was started by first mothers who are helping other women not have to go through what they did when they lost their children to an un-regulated adoption industry.
Correction: Lisa Woolsey (I said her name wrong on the podcast) gave the training that I attended.
Learn about the Board of Directors of SOS here:
https://savingoursistersadoption.org/saving-our-sisters-about-us/boardofdirectors/
Family Preservation Project (Where Moms and Resources Meet):
https://thefamilypreservationproject.com/
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Stop the Unregulated Adoption Industry
Pressure on UK government for formal apology re forced adoption:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/09/victims-of-forced-adoption-step-up-pressure-for-uk-government-apology
Adoption Trends (why a decline in adoption?)
Intersection of coercive control, the troubled teen industry (TTI) and adoption. More on TTI here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLaEnQ2Dp0&ab_channel=60MinutesAustralia
H.R. 1475 - Hospital Adoption Education Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1475/text
NAAP Happy hour replay of Friday 6.2.23 Zoom presentation of "All You Have is Love":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_G1yXypDcI&t=889s&ab_channel=NationalAssociationofAdoptees%26Parents
Trailer of the documentary here (pledge a donation!):
https://seedandspark.com/fund/allyouhaveislove#story
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Kidnapped ”adoptee” in reunion
Our personal kinship adoption experience and subsequent open adoption; When God Calls you to adopt; risks of unlicensed adoption brokers; the Kamiya Mobley story (kidnapped child learns she is not the biological daughter of her "adoptive" mom when she is 18 years old).
Show Notes:
Risks of Unlicensed Adoption Brokers in Private Adoption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onyzHGYKXOo&t=64s&ab_channel=AdoptionNetCle
When God Calls You to Adopt (by The Real Adoptee Moxie)
https://open.substack.com/pub/therealadopteamoxie/p/when-god-calls-you-to-adopt?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The Kamiyah Mobley story:
https://www.hulu.com/series/beyond-the-headlines-the-kamiyah-mobley-story-with-robin-roberts-dd7e8f8f-7b48-4171-bdda-702251449f36
Link to my blog:
https://noapologiesforbeingme.blogspot.com/
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Adoption in the News
Adoptee Citizenship Act; Adult Adoption Scam; Ohio Kinship and Adoption Navigators (OhioKAN); Korean Court Rules Against Adoption Agency: North Dakota ICWA law; Attorneys on the Bus; Rootstech Genealogy Conference
Show notes:
Latest on Citizenship for Intercountry Adoptees:
https://adopteerightslaw.com/adoptee-citizenship-act-status/
OhioKAN (help with kinship and adoption resources)
https://ohiokan.jfs.ohio.gov/our-program/
Ohio Justice Bus:
https://www.ohiolegalhelp.org/blog-5-25-2021-ohio-justice-bus
Family Search (Rootstech Genealogy Conference):
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/