Replied: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 15:51:05 EST Replied: "celeste@netexpress.net (Celeste) " From news@uunet.uu.net Tue Jan 21 09:51:22 1997 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.7.6/2.3JIK) with SMTP id JAA02840; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:51:21 -0500 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14778; Tue, 21 Jan 97 09:48:48 EST Received: from news0-alterdial.uu.net by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: news0-alterdial.UU.NET [192.48.96.23]) id QQbzlr22440; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:48:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by news0-alterdial.uu.net id QQbzlr10862; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:48:46 -0500 (EST) To: news-answers@mail.uu.net Path: celeste From: celeste@netexpress.net (Celeste) Newsgroups: news.answers,alt.adoption.issues Subject: FAQ 1: alt.adoption.issues Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 08:51:38 -0600 Organization: Children are our future, adoption gives them a chance! Lines: 60 Message-Id: Nntp-Posting-Host: pm1-2.netexpress.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 alt.adoption.issues This is the place to "enter the battle" on the side of positive adoption practices and to preserve the instituiton of adoption as we know it. This is the First (and REAL) FAQ for alt.adoption.issues. First you might ask, "What is this newsgroup for?" This newsgroup is for revealing/exposing the true agendas of SO CALLED "adoption reform" AND "adoption reformers", from here on in refered to on this newsgroup as 'adoption deform' AND 'adoption deformers' which is a more fitting description of what they in fact, ARE. If anything _against adoption_ is spoken on alt.adoption, the online forums, the media, etc... that you'd like to respond to, do it here. Yet, always be ready for heated reactions, but in this instance...they have crossed over into advocacy territory and we can shout back at them..."if you don't like it, then you don't have to read here, just go away, leave!". :-) (Is that not what anyone who has anything 'positive to say' about adoption get told on their SO CALLED, "adoption" newsgroup which they purport to represent?) They do NOT represent adoption, they represent the END of adoption as we know it, they seek to prevent and to abolish adoption, while at the same time doing nothing to end, promote policies that promote tolerance for illegitimacy, unplanned, out-of-wed lock births. Policies that have led to thousands upon thousands of tragedies and tragic outcomes for our nation's children. You may ask, "Why would this newsgroup be necessary?" If you are interested in, care about or are effected by adoption...what you should and need to know is that for the first time since the 1930's, the decade of the 1990's is a decade of adoption reform, in which "sweeping changes" in public policy in adoption practices and unsealing and opening confidential adoption records are being proposed and fought over in every congressional hall where new laws and legislation are introduced all over the Country. _Adoption_ as we know it_ meaning: To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child and creating a new family (legally foresaking all previous family ties) by adoption, is under attack. For this, I recommend the advice of William Pierce, President of the National Council For Adoption, quoted from a recent issue of the National Adoption Report article, "There is Heat in the Kitchen": "Public policy is a high-stakes game these days, and the tactics used in pursuit of winning are often crude. So be prepared if you enter the battle on the side of positive adoption practices, with facts from research and experience as your weapons." Therefore, we must get off our lazy duffs, take the time to LEARN, read, keep up on current research, all the facts, studies and literature, become knowledgable, know the facts...become educated and help to educate society about the truth that adoption is good public policy that brings benefits for us all! Our work is much easier than theirs, because the facts and evidence is in our favor, all we have to do is know what the facts are and spread the word far and wide. *ADOPTION WORKS!* updated 01/21/97