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National
Press
The New York Times<:
"Where Adoption Is Suddenly an Open Book"
by Jim Robbins, May 17, 2001
Rolling Stone:
"The Bastard Chronicles"
By Randall Sullivan, January 15, 2001
Associated Press:
"Adoptees Battle Secrecy of Records"
By David Crary, November 11, 2000
Seventeen Magazine:
" Are you my mother? Adopted teens search for their families, their histories and their identities."
by Gayle Forman, November 2000
USA
Today: "Adoptees' rights group gets
support in Washington" By Patrick McMahon,
September 11, 2000
Weekly
Standard: "The Rise of 'Bastard Nation'
And the threat to Adoption", By Ira Carnahan,
September 11, 2000
Offspring
Magazine:
"This
Woman Wants you to Call her a Bastard", by
Jonathan Eig: June/July 2000; Letter to Editor from
BN ExecCom: Sep/Oct 2000
Chicago Tribune: "Opening Adoption Files Worries Birth Parents,
Some Say their Privacy Outsptrips Kids' Interests",
by Vincent J. Schodolski: April 16, 2000
Boston
Globe: "Politicians
push for legalized baby abandonment at safe sites"
by Adam Pertman: March 10, 2000
Jewish World Review: "Constitution: A way to save unwanted newborns"
by Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist:
February 24, 2000
Glamour Magazine: "The Great Debate: Do adopted children have
the right to know about their birth parents?",
By Jessica Branch: July 1999
USA TODAY:
"Adoptees demand right to past: Activists fight
for access to their birth records, but mothers say
they were promised anonymity. Now, two sides take
battle to Oregon court." By Patrick McMahon:
June 25, 1999
The Washington Times: "Adoptees gaining birth records as mothers
fret about privacy" by Cheryl Wetzstein: May
23, 1999
NetGuide: April 13, 1999
San
Francisco Examiner:
Fight over adoption secrecy: Adoptees' drive for right
to identify birth parents can conflict with elders'
need for privacy" by Examiner Editorial writer,
February 22, 1999
Letters to the Editor:
2/24/99;
More Letters to the
Editor: 3/1/99
More Letters to the
Editor: 3/10/99
Newsweek: "Haunted by a Painful History: In Oregon,
adoptees and birthmothers square off in a battle
over secrecy" by Lynette Clemetson: February
22, 1999
Letters: March 15, 1999
Time: "Tracking Down Mom: Should adopted children
have the right to uncover their birthparents? More
states are trying to open records", by John
Cloud: February 22, 1999
Letters: March 15, 1999
The Los Angeles Times:
"Open-Adoption Initiative Is Facing Voters
in Oregon", by Kim Murphy, November 3, 1998
GEORGE Magazine:
"Ballot Initiatives" November 1998
The
Boston Globe: "Oregon voters could open door to adoptees' past"
by Adam Pertman October 2, 1998
POZ: "I
Want my Mommy" Bastard Nation and TIES (Terminal
Illness Emergenecy Search): January, 1998
HotWired:
"Keyword: Mom" by Simson Garfinkel: Sept.
8, 1997
Yahoo!
Internet Life: "Once Lost Now Found" by David Rothman:
May, 1997
MSNBC's The
Site: "Parent Search": April
2, 1997
MSNBC Cinemania:
"No more Secrets & Lies" By Kris Kaiyala,
March 17, 1997
Newsweek:
"Family Secrets: From hidden adoptions to hushed-up
romances, that which you don't know still has the
power to hurt you." by David Gelman and Debra
Rosenberg, February 24, 1997
Self Magazine:
"Mother and Child Reunions: The Internet is
helping to link up adults who have lost someone
through adoption" by Elizabeth Kadetsky, December,
1996
Local
Press
AL:
Montgomery Advertiser - 1/24/00
CA:
San Diego Union Tribune - 9/1/99
Contra Costa Times - 4/25/99
San Jose Mercury News - 12/6/98
New Times: 3/27/97
L.A.
Daily News:
3/25/97
La Opinion: 3/25/97
The
Cambrian:
3/20/97
SF
Bay Guardian:
3/19/97
San
Jose Mercury News:
3/10/97
Daily
Californian (UC-Berkeley
paper): 2/ 3/97
Oakland
Tribune:
2/3/97
CT:
The New Haven Advocate - 11/ 26/98
Washington DC:
Washington CityPaper - 5/21/99
DE:
Mary-Lee
Lutz on the UAA4/26/98
GA:
Macon
Telegraph 12/4/98
HI:
Honolulu
Weekly 5/23/01
KS:
Coffeyville Journal 6/18/99
MN:
Pioneer Press - 7/20/98
NH:
Foster's
Daily Democrat:
11/28/99
NJ:
Ashbury
Park Press:
2/3/97
Bergen Record: February
3, 1997
NY:
Newsday- 1/30/99
The Daily Mail- 12/3/98
OK:
The Tulsa World - 2/4/01
The Edmond Sun - 4/25/00
The Edmond Sun- 3/14/99
The Tulsa World - 12/4/98
OH:
The Beacon Journal
- 11/4/2000
The Canton Repository
- 10/31/2000
The Oakland Press
- 3/29/00
The Columbus Dispatch - 10/4/98
Columbus Alive wireD - 9/30/97
Columbus
Dispatch (OH):
3/7/97
OR:
The Oregonian - 12/10/99
The Willamette Weekly - 10/13/99
The Willamette Weekly - 9/22/99
The Oregonian - 12/6/98
The Willamette Weekly - 8/26/98
The Willamette Weekly - 7/22/98
Flux Magazine University of OR School of Journalism: Spring 1997
PA:
Philadelphia City Paper 1/27/00
Philadelphia City Paper 4/22/99
Philadelphia City Paper 12/10/98
The Philadelphia City Paper -
9/25/98
The Philadelphia Enquirer 8/27/98
TX:
Daily
Texan University
of TX: 4/29/97
WA:
Seattle Times 9/1/00
South County Journal 6/28/99
Washington Times 11/98 (M58)
Washington Times 11/98 (Nat. Reg.)
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has a press article about adoption which they have
written or in which they appear, feel free to send
a copy to webmaster@bastards.org
for possible inclusion on the
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