Ethica's Support FOR Adoption

•           Developing and sustaining relationships in open adoptions

•           Identifying particular protections needed for LGBT adoption triad members

•           Listening to narratives on domestic, international, foster care and IVF adoptions

Seeking to "find solutions to barriers" for anyone SEEKING to adopt is contrary to family preservation and puts the emphasis in adoption on finding children for parents and not the other way around. You cannot both support family preservation and continued adoption separations at the same time. 

Ethica's mission statement currently reads:  "Ethica advocates for national and international improvement of adoption practices, offering support, education and advocacy to all persons affected by adoption."  This clearly states persons effected (past tense) by adoption - it does not state they support persons wanting TO adopt!

However, they make no bones about their position:

Is Ethica pro-adoption?
Yes! All of us at Ethica are ardent supporters of ethical adoption. Done well, adoption is a blessing to the children of the world who need families, and to the families who want to parent more children. While Ethica speaks out about the difficulties and problems in the adoption community, we do so out of a desire to improve adoption, not eliminate it.

The problem is, however, that ethical adoption is undefined and unregulated and does not exist! Until it does, how can they support adoption?  It's like a cancer specialist saying it's Ok to smoke "safe" cigarettes! Their aint no such thing! Nor is there any enforced open adoption - it's all a promise and a sham.

How is supporting adoptions that begin with falsified birth certificates ethical?

New England Adoption Conference, April 17, 2010

Save the Date!

Adoption Community of New England, Inc.
presents

Identity in Adoption: Glimpses Beneath the Masks

Saturday, April 17th, 2010
Bellingham High School
60 Blackstone Street
Bellingham, MA 02019

Featuring keynote speaker Debbie Riley

Director, Center for Adoption Support & Education and Author of Beneath the Mask

The Adoption Community of New England serves all those touched by adoption, including:

• Adopted persons
• Extended family members
• Adoptive families
• Prospective adopters
• Birth families
• Adoption professionals

There will be more than 85 workshops at this year’s conference that will appeal to adopted persons, adoptive families, extended families, birth parents and prospective adopters. 

I will be presenting:


Universality of Grief: Mothers Who Lose Children to Adoption

With a PowerPoint overview, presenter will explore the continuum of mother losses and the universality of mothers’ grief, the impact of class, age and powerlessness on adoption loss, alternatives to adoption loss, and empowerment of mothers.  Presenter: Mirah Riben, activist, lecturer, freelance writer, author, shedding light on...The Dark Side of Adoption, and The Stork Market: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry.

The 2010 brochure and access to online conference registration will be posted soon on the ACONE website at: www.AdoptionCommunityofNE.org.

I look forward to seeing old and new friends!