If passed, instead of receiving their Original Birth Certificates upon request, Lucky Bastards will receive a court -generated document– a copy of their Report of Adoption.form, The form is routinely sent by the court to the Wisconsin Office of Vital Statistics after an adoption is finalized, to request the Amended Birth Certificate be issued–if the adoptive parents have requested a new certificate. It includes the names of the child, birth and adoptive parents and other OBC information.
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AdoptionLand Loses Another One: RIP Kate Cleary
Kate was an adoptee rights pioneer. She served as the president of the American Adoption Congress in the late 1980s and early ’90s when it was.one of the few rights organizations around.. In 1999 she founded the Consortium for Children in San Rafael. California. to provide support and technical assistance to both public and private child welfare agencies.to create. positive outcomes for children and their families. thrown into “the system.”
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Political. Search, Support Links Rights And Wrongs Of Child Adoption In Armenia, Azatatyun, June 23, 2003 Integrity of Foreign Adoptions In Armenia Still In Question, Massis Post, April 27, 2011 ###### Armenia’s children with …
Continue readingMassachusetts: Bastard Nation Testimony in support of H1892/S1267–unrestricted access for all
Since then Maine, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Colorado, and New York, (one of the tightest sealed states in the US) have unsealed OBC s, and in some cases related records to their adoptees wthout restriction. With the overturning of sealed records laws, changed social and cultural mores, inexpensive DNA tests, social, media, and a large corps of “search angels,” the days of secret and sealed adoption are over, Massachusetts has no state interest in keeping its adoptees and their records segregated and divided by age and adoption date.
Continue readingAction Alert: Massachusetts H1892/S1267 Fill the gap. All MA adoptees deserve their OBCs
H1892 and S1267 are currently in the Joint Committee on Public Health. These companion bills are clean and probably the shortest OBC access bill in history. When enacted the gap between the haves and have nots, the worthies and the unworthies, will be closed, and the right of all Massachusetts adoptees, without restriction, to their own OBCs will be restored.
Bastard Nation has supported these bills and similar bills for years. Unfortunately, they are a low priority and are left to die at the end of each 2-year session. This discrimination has got to stop.
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Political, Search, and Reunion (for Indigenous provincial organizations and resources go to individual province pages) Camp: Justice for Our Stolen Children (Facebook) Metis Nation: of Canada/.Nation Metisse du Canada Connecting Sixties Scoop Survivors Metis …
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General Information How to request information Individuals adopted abroad or parents of origin of a child who was adopted abroad Controlling Legislation: Family Services Act; Vital Statistics Act Assemblée nationale du Québec Political, Search and …
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General Information How to request information Controlling Legislation: Adoption Act, SNWT (Nu) 1998, c 9, Part 2 Northwest Territories Assembly Political, Search and Reunion Canada Open Records (Facebook) (Bastard Nation Partner) Access Age of …
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General Information How to request information Controlling Legislation: Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act, RSA 2000, Chapter C-12, Sections 74 & 75 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Political, Search, and Reunion Alberta Adoption–Search and Reunion …
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General Information How to request information Controlling legislation: Child and Family Services Act Yukon Legislative Assembly Political, Search and Reunion Canada Open Records (Facebook) (Bastard Nation Partner) Access Age of access: 19 years Adult …
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