Pound Pup Legacy

Two days ago we started the nominations for the Annual Demons of Adoption Awards for the fourth time in succession. As much as I like that we do this every year, and how much I love to point out the "bad guys" in adoption, I've also come to realize that the adoption system itself is most evil of all and that pointing out a few "bad guys" is not going to solve the ethical problems related to adoption.

from: nytimes.com

September 1, 2010
By DUFF WILSON

OPELOUSAS, La. — At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.

The life of Guelph’s Jim Garrow: He’s garnered wide interest, praise and criticism for his Pink Pagoda child rescue operation

August 28, 2010
Kim Mackrael

Jim Garrow is all smiles.

The Guelph resident is fresh off the phone with his U.S.-based literary agent, Nancy Ellis, who told him everything is on track for a deal on a book that will document his life story.

From: independent.co.uk

Adoption is a tricky business, as Michael Bywater knows only too well – and the signing of the papers is no guarantee of a happy ending

In 2007 Pound Pup Legacy instituted the annual Demons of Adoption Award to raise a voice against adoption propaganda and the self congratulatory practices of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's annual Angels in Adoption Awards ^TM.

Until September 30 you can nominate candidates for the fourth annual Demons of Adoption Award, after which we will put up a poll to vote for the nominees. Please add a comment to this post with your nominee and a short explanation why this candidate has the dubious honor of winning the award. You can also email your nomination to this address.

Previous editions:

First Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to the National Council for Adoption)
Second Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to the makers of Juno)
Third Annual Demons of Adoption Awards (award went to Bethany Christian Services)

Living in Sin and Judicial Activism

Eugene Volokh • August 27, 2010 5:59 pm

Kevin and Kody Pribbernow, you mom and dad Faith and Kevin Baden love you very much, and they want you both, to come back home and live with them in Alpena,Michigan. 

You can contact them.

989-340-0089  email them at fthndkvn@yahoo.com

Faith and Kevin Baden

709 Long Lake Ave

Alpena,Mi 49707

By Eugene Nikitenko

August 24, 2010 / The Voice of Russia

Hi,

My name is Colleen Colaner and I am a doctoral student in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I am doing research on how adoptive parents talked to their children about adoption, and I’m looking for people who would be interested in filling out a survey for me.

German families torn apart by forced adoptions during the cold war are still looking for answers – and their lost relatives

By Marten Rolff

August 22, 2010 / guardian.co.uk

Winona Varney was reunited with her mother through Facebook, writes Christopher Booker.

By Christopher Booker

August 21, 2010 / telegraph.co.uk

An incredibly important Supreme Court decision has come out of India on Monday!

I have no real time to write about it all at the moment, so instead, I'm going to pull a variety of quotes out of some of the articles from the past day or so to lay out the outlines of what has just taken place.

The ruling comes in a case brought by Arun Dohle of Against Child Trafficking or ACT (which has long been listed in my links list. They have been doing critically important human rights work for both adopted people and their families.)

Please note that while the news reports are dismissive of Dohle's "lineage plea," what the court actually ruled was that he would still be able to file a suit for seeking relief.

Certainly not a full victory by any means, ( at least not yet,) but when it comes to establishing the absolute right of Indian adoptees to their documentation, the high court finally gave over full access, rebuffing arguments by the agency/NGO claiming adoptees have no right to such or that their files should be covered by "confidentiality"or "mother's privacy."

In one ongoing case, social workers are pursuing the most surreal inquiries, says Christopher Booker

By Christopher Booker

August 14, 2010/ telegraph.co.uk

Tue, December 1, 2009 8:11:01 PM[ No Subject ]
From: faith baden <fthndkvn@yahoo.com> View Contact
To: ileesa33@yahoo.com 

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to whom it may concern ;

we are the bio parents of kevin and kody baden ,our names are faith and kevin baden from Alena mi,we lost our children in arenac mi back in 2003 due to unjustified reason for taken our parental rights away from us .we have proof that the  people  who had them taken had lied about our family to justify their reasons for pulling them .we have records from the the cps office stating that for the two reason why they took our kids were lies .

Blanca Catt was born in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S. as a toddler. She was seized from abusive parents by the state of Oregon and placed into foster care with the Catts when she was 5 years old. The Catts adopted her three years later. Crucial paperwork has never been filed to make her a legal resident, which makes her face deportation.

Home state: Oregon

Country of origin: Mexico

Status: