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The Adoption Show - E-News & Next Show: Susan Thompson Underdhal

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« on: May 02, 2007, 08:12:41 pm »

THE ADOPTION SHOW
Voices Ending The Myth...
 E-news  May 3, 2007

NEXT SHOW...
Sunday
May 6, 2007
www.theadoptionshow.com
8:30 PM (EST)
Click on link "Listen to this week's show" on the home page or choose a media player
Join us in the Chat Room after the show!

Susan Thompson Underdahl
Susan is a 42-year-old psychologist, writer, and adoptee who has written a young adult novel, "The Other Sister" (Flux, 2007), about the emotional ripple effects of adoption reunion on siblings. Susan feels like this is such a poorly understood aspect of the reunion process, and in fact she recently spoke about it during the American Adoption Congress 28th Annual Meeting in Boston. 

The story of "The Other Sister" is very close to her heart, because it reflects her own family's experience with reunion. Susan is hopeful that it will fill an important niche in the adoption literature, and will help normalize feelings for adoptees and siblings during the reunion process. As one who knows the complexities of the reunion experience, she understands that it can be very helpful to realize that you are not the first person to feel such intense and often confusing emotions, and that it is all part of the process.
"The Other Sister" is available through most retailers and online booksellers.  If you would like more information about Susan or about "The Other Sister", it is available at her website: www.stunderdahl.com

APRIL 2007: NEW INTERNET FORUM FOR ADOPTEES HAS LAUNCHED!
Adoptees from anywhere, and from every type of adoption are welcome to join (Adult Adoptees) Advocating for Change (AFC), a new forum set up by Joy, Addie, Lillie, Dory and Stewie - five adoptees who decided adopted persons need a place to feel safe and be able to freely share and discuss issues and adoption practices from the perspective of the adoptee.
From the AFC Mission Statement:

"Advocating for Change is an adoptee-centered support forum. This forum was created by adoptees, and is owned, administered and moderated by adoptees. Our focus is simple: We are here to provide support for the adoptee in the process of dealing with adoption issues.
This forum is the inside of adoption looking out. It starts with US, the children of adoption, now adults, with voices that need to be heard and words that we need to speak. 

We acknowledge wounds and scars here. We acknowledge loss and grief here."
To join AFC go to http://afc.smfforfree2.com/index.php

Party Time in October 2007!
The Adoption Show - Voices Ending the Myth will be hosting an event in Toronto on October 6, 2007. We'll be celebrating a change in adoption legislation in Ontario...
Adoption records are set to become unsealed in Ontario beginning September 2007 - Adoption Disclosure Act (2005). The new legislation will unseal birth certificates for adoptees and for mothers who surrendered children to adoption.
The theme of the event is Adoption & The Arts. We'll have singers, performance art, poetry reading and more! This will also be an opportunity for authors, artists and musicians to promote and sell their work.
More details coming soon...
 
On Sunday May 13th, Mother's Day
The Adoption Show will air a segment dedicated to our Mothers of
adoption loss.

At The Adoption Show Site
http://www.theadoptionshow.com/home.htm
Past Shows
http://www.theadoptionshow.com/pastshows.htm
Guests
http://www.theadoptionshow.com/guests.htm
The Team
http://www.theadoptionshow.com/contributors.htm
Sponsor / Advertise
http://www.theadoptionshow.com/sponsors.htm
Chat Room
http://www.theadoptionshow.com/chatroom.htm

BRING BABY EVELYN
HOME
...
Baby Evelyn,  shortly before she was coerced away from her mother, Stephanie Bennett, and her family to be placed with Strangers...
.
Learn more about Baby Evelyn and help the Bennett family get Evelyn back by donating toward their legal case.
Details here: www.sendevelynhome.com

Check out past shows!
Bring Baby Evelyn Home
Doug Henderson - Adoptees & Concept of Self
Late Discovery Adoptees
www.theadoptionshow.com

New York State Open Records LegislationGet involved with New York and unsealing adoption records...
Find your local legislator
518 455-4219 (New York)
Contact NYASR President Joyce Bahr to find out how to contact your legislator to support this bill
www.unsealedinitiative.org
Listen to The Adoption Show segment on New York's Legislation
January 7, 2007
www.theadoptionshow.com
Click on Past Shows

Be a guest on The Adoption Show!Sponsor a show and advertise your professional services, organization or business on the show
Submit your story, poetry, artwork, music or dedicate a show or song to someone...

Send emails to
The Adoption Show - Voices Ending the Myth...
theadoptionshow@gmail.com

Michelle Edmunds
Host, Producer
Thaddeus Pedro
Recording Producer




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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2007, 08:38:31 pm »

Coool...michelle thanks for plugging the site! IT will be GREAT to reach out to other adoptees!   

And also, guys, did you see that Toronto is celebrating Bastardpalooza in October??? I hope they will have a moment of silence for St Gerard, the patron saint of bastards, whose feast day is that month....maybe we should try to organize a field trip to Toronto...anyone? I've never been but have an aunt and cousin there and hear its a really cool town... Cool
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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2007, 08:45:31 pm »

Bastardpalooza in Toronto?  How cool is that!  It would be awesome!
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2007, 05:42:00 am »

Yes! Come! Love the "bastardpalooza!"

The legislation, btw, has some nasty provisos in it: there's a no-contact veto, where the adoptee or mother can get the the names, but can't make contact (there's a note attached to the file saying no contact). This is disgusting. And, if this veto is breeched, a $50,000 fine can apply ($500,000 to an organization/business....like professional searchers). More disgusting. Because of opposition and the privacy/confidentiality crap....the government caved and allowed the veto into the legislation. The bill wouldn't have passed had this not been included. There's also a tibunal that's been set up for those who feel harm will come their way if their identifying info is released (there are three adoptees and one n-father who launched a charter challenge against the government saying their consitutional right to privacy has been violated because of the release of identifying info). At the committee hearings, one adoptee said he felt that his genetic creator should not have the right to know who he is. (Huh?)

People can request anonymity but it has to be reviwed by the tibunal and accepted or declined. Opposition got this one in based on women whose lives may be in danger should their family find out she had a child. The legislation will be reviewed in five years, so if there's still a Liberal government, we might be able to get it changed.....providing of course, that a hoard of mothers didn't jump of bridges because her child found her and adoptees (over the age of 19) don't get killled by their mothers.

The law to unseal records does apply to all adoptees (no pre or post certain years or decades).
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