Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Stork Market UPdate!
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I am pleased to share with you that initial sales and praise of The Stork Market are very positive and promising. Amazon.com will be selling it and has already ordered 10 copies!
I want you to read these two notes I got yesterday and today. The first is from MaryAnne Cohen who has reviewed most every book on adoption:
"I am about half way through your book, and it is outstanding! What a beautiful job of research, editing, writing, and bringing diverse sources together into a coherent whole. Marvelous work, highly
recommended."
The second is from Roelie Post in Brussels:
"I read your book. Congratulations for the clear stand you take and for the excellent description of what is so totally wrong with adoption - and even more with intercountry adoption. Indeed a failed social experiment.
I would like to order four more copies."
I am pleased to share with you that initial sales and praise of The Stork Market are very positive and promising. Amazon.com will be selling it and has already ordered 10 copies!
I want you to read these two notes I got yesterday and today. The first is from MaryAnne Cohen who has reviewed most every book on adoption:
"I am about half way through your book, and it is outstanding! What a beautiful job of research, editing, writing, and bringing diverse sources together into a coherent whole. Marvelous work, highly
recommended."
The second is from Roelie Post in Brussels:
"I read your book. Congratulations for the clear stand you take and for the excellent description of what is so totally wrong with adoption - and even more with intercountry adoption. Indeed a failed social experiment.
I would like to order four more copies."
# posted by Senior Mom @ 5:30 AM 
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Naw, I only review books of those who buy me a drink or a free lunch:-) Actually, I've only reviewed a few of the many out now and certainly would not want to have to read them all.
I have finished Stork Market, will write a review, do recommend it highly, all but the conclusion which suggests replacing adoption with guardianship, which I think weakens the impact of the book among those whose help we need to get policies changed, and will lose support for an otherwise excellent look at what is wrong with adoption today.
I have finished Stork Market, will write a review, do recommend it highly, all but the conclusion which suggests replacing adoption with guardianship, which I think weakens the impact of the book among those whose help we need to get policies changed, and will lose support for an otherwise excellent look at what is wrong with adoption today.
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: 2:06 PM
My father, a street-wise man of little education, had his own style of wisdom. One of the things he told me which is quite true is that every grass roots movement for political change has its extremes. And no matter radical - i.e. Black Panthers - they help to get the more moderate ideas through.
I myself have additionally discovered that many ideas which seem preposterous, ridiculous, impossible - or even wrong to m just a year ago, seem quite right to me today.
Once such, is a subject K.R. and have been discussing on the Q & comments.A year or so ago, when i first heard a mother say that her relinquished child did not have a right to her (the mother's) medical records i was quite taken aback. I am from the "old school" of "good (birth)mothers who's only activism was to selflessly stand behind adoptees in THEIR quest for open records. I think somehow "I" felt that I could make amends for habing "abandoned" my child and leaving them in this mess with no records...I thought it was the last I could do, and after all nothing could undo the harm that I had suffered.
As such, I couldn't imagine a mother denying her child, medical records. While I understand, I still have trouble with a found mother slamming a door and/or refusing to give med. info directly to her returning child. BUT, there
is a difference between giving medical history directly to a family member and giving it over to a gvt agency or having anyone access what is written about you in a file.
All adoptees need to be EQUAL to non-adoptees is the BC. Nothing more and nothing less. The have no more right to see the judgments a social worker wrote about me or you, than my raised kids do, or anyone else.
I say this just as an example of how opinions can change with time - if you leave your mind open and listen and learn. My immediate reaction to hearing a mother wanting to deny her child access to medical records was a quick knee-jerk: How selfish! But when I got my passed my preconceived notions and allowing my judgments to override the facts and the LOGIC...I said: "Oh, yes. I see!"
We may think we have been around so long we know it all...but the older I get, the more I find there is to learn. And the more I tolerant I become of different approaches.
We do not all have to agree with one another 100% and probably seldom will. I belong to several adoption-related orgs: CUB, BN...I do not agree with either of them 100%. Not with OUSA, or the AAC...but so what? Each has its own unique slant on the issue.Some are considered more radial, or hard-line,or whatever. They are all part of the mix...Different strokes that make the world go around, and make the ride more interesting and colorful! Just think how boring the world would be if we all agrees on everything all the time! B-O-R-I-N-G!!!
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I myself have additionally discovered that many ideas which seem preposterous, ridiculous, impossible - or even wrong to m just a year ago, seem quite right to me today.
Once such, is a subject K.R. and have been discussing on the Q & comments.A year or so ago, when i first heard a mother say that her relinquished child did not have a right to her (the mother's) medical records i was quite taken aback. I am from the "old school" of "good (birth)mothers who's only activism was to selflessly stand behind adoptees in THEIR quest for open records. I think somehow "I" felt that I could make amends for habing "abandoned" my child and leaving them in this mess with no records...I thought it was the last I could do, and after all nothing could undo the harm that I had suffered.
As such, I couldn't imagine a mother denying her child, medical records. While I understand, I still have trouble with a found mother slamming a door and/or refusing to give med. info directly to her returning child. BUT, there
is a difference between giving medical history directly to a family member and giving it over to a gvt agency or having anyone access what is written about you in a file.
All adoptees need to be EQUAL to non-adoptees is the BC. Nothing more and nothing less. The have no more right to see the judgments a social worker wrote about me or you, than my raised kids do, or anyone else.
I say this just as an example of how opinions can change with time - if you leave your mind open and listen and learn. My immediate reaction to hearing a mother wanting to deny her child access to medical records was a quick knee-jerk: How selfish! But when I got my passed my preconceived notions and allowing my judgments to override the facts and the LOGIC...I said: "Oh, yes. I see!"
We may think we have been around so long we know it all...but the older I get, the more I find there is to learn. And the more I tolerant I become of different approaches.
We do not all have to agree with one another 100% and probably seldom will. I belong to several adoption-related orgs: CUB, BN...I do not agree with either of them 100%. Not with OUSA, or the AAC...but so what? Each has its own unique slant on the issue.Some are considered more radial, or hard-line,or whatever. They are all part of the mix...Different strokes that make the world go around, and make the ride more interesting and colorful! Just think how boring the world would be if we all agrees on everything all the time! B-O-R-I-N-G!!!
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