Our Mission

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.

Constitution: A Way to Save Unwanted Newborns

Mona Charen

Mona Charen

Mona Charen – Special

Wednesday * February 23

Our prosperous, lively, comfortable nation is facing a sudden upsurge in a pmblem as ancient as leprosy — baby abandonment and murder.

Tales of high-school girls giving birth at prams and in Disney World bathrooms, and either strangling their children or leaving them for dead, have made chilling headlines. Such stories, we are now learning, are not freak incidents. In the first 10 months of 1999,13 babies were abandoned at birth in the city of Houston alone.

Of these, three were found dead. The FBI says that five infants under age 1 are murdered every week, but the government does not keep separate statistics on baby abandonment. Those working in the field estimate that anywhere between several hundred and several thousand babies are exposed or thrown in Dumpsters every year.

The stones continue to flow in. In Germantown, Md., a baby was found in a trash can in a residential neighborhood. Wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a Kmart shopping bag, along with sanitary napkins, underwear, a chicken bone and other trash, the baby screamed in the freezing temperatures. Neighbors heard her cries and rescued her only minutes before the trash collectors would have dumped the contents of the bin. … Continue Reading