How Can I Make a Difference?

After all of my research and listening to adoptees and first mothers, I have written an article that is trying to find a publisher.  I am advocating for opening all birth records for all adults.  I have just written a proposal for a workshop at the American Adoption Congress 32nd Annual Conference in April, 2011.  It will be months before I know if it is accepted.  In the meantime, you can provide ideas you want discussed and addressed. 

My topic is "Still a Nation of Slavery if..."  I will be addressing the fact that adoptees and first mothers must enlist the aid of outsiders in gaining open records and adoption reform.  We, the general public, have bought into the fact that adoption is the right answer for everyone involved.  Just as slaves could not have freed themselves, or women could not have won the right to vote without "outside" intervention, neither can adoptees and first mothers achieve opening sealed records and reform without "outside" help. 

Outsiders must be enlisted in this fight for social change, the fight to right wrongs of the past.  Read books, articles and check out the we sites.  I often refer to books  were written in the 90s to enforce the idea that these ideas are not new.  Newer books and articles reinforce what has been written.  Take time to educate yourself and then take action.

 The Spirit of Open Adoption
Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families Through the Years

Until next time,
Alice