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Alison Larkin: The English American Speaks Her Truth About Adoption, Mirah Riben
Alison Larkin: The English American Speaks Her Truth About Adoption, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben interviews Alison Larkin, adoptee, author and one-woman show writer-performer, about her adoption, international adoption practices, and her reunion and relationship with her mother and father.
Adopted Citizens Denied Access To Their Birth Certificates: A Little-Known Civil Rights Issue, Mirah Riben
Adopted Citizens Denied Access To Their Birth Certificates: A Little-Known Civil Rights Issue, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
American citizens who were adopted are denied the right to access their own original birth certificates (OBC) in most U.S. states, a right available to all other non-adopted citizens. State regulations denying unrestricted access to one’s own birth certificate that apply only to a segment of the population create a lifelong inequality and violate the civil rights of adopted persons. Outdated state regulations that maintain this discrimination need to be repealed.
Repeal The Seal!, Mirah Riben
Repeal The Seal!, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Instead of introducing legislation to give back rights to adoptees taken from them during the 1940s, the author suggests repealing the state regulations that originally sealed the birth certificates of adoptees.
The Ironies Of Adoption, Mirah Riben
The Ironies Of Adoption, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
The author points out the irony of the extent people will go to in an attempt to conceive and birth a child that is genetically and biologically connected to them, yet when all their efforts fail and they ersort to adoption, they accept a system that relies on lies and secrecy and severs all the adoptee's connections to his heredity.
Defining Ethics In Domestic And Global Adoption Practice, Mirah Riben
Defining Ethics In Domestic And Global Adoption Practice, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Adoption practitioners and agencies all speak about ethics. However, without definition, the term is as subjective meaningless as "nice." This presentation points out the lack of definition or agreement of what constitutes ethical adoption practice and offers some concrete guidelines to be initiated to protect all parties.
American Adoption Access Laws Are And Policies Are Upside Down And Backwards, Mirah Riben
American Adoption Access Laws Are And Policies Are Upside Down And Backwards, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Adoption seals original birth certificates not just from the public, but from the parties named therein. The author argues against the claim that there is any need to continue these antiquated laws to "prtoect" mothers' anonymity.
Adoption Fees: Ethical Considerations For All Parties In Adoption, Mirah Riben
Adoption Fees: Ethical Considerations For All Parties In Adoption, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
A great deal is said about ethics in adoption. However, the term remains vague, undefined, and subjective with suggested, but no firm or enforced guidelines enacted to police the adoption industry and protect the families and individuals whose lives they irrevocably change. This presentation focuses on the inequities of adoption fees particularly in terms of providing legal counsel to the mothers relinquishing.
Fraud And Kidnapping Casts A Cloud On Guatemalan Adoptions, Mirah Riben
Fraud And Kidnapping Casts A Cloud On Guatemalan Adoptions, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Children are being stolen, kidnapped and trafficked fro adoption in Guatemala, as elsewhere. The author reports on her Human Rights Delegatiion visit with one mother who successfully reclaimed her daughter as she was on her way to be adopted in the US, as well as her visit with Norma Cruz' Survivor's Foundation who is working to help the victim of kidnappings in this corrupt nation.
"Open Records" Versus "Equal Access": Reframing Our Issues, Mirah Riben
"Open Records" Versus "Equal Access": Reframing Our Issues, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Adoption reform activists have for decades used the phrase "open records". Riben argues that "Equal Access" rightly reframes the argument as one of equality rather than a special request.
Who Deserves To Be A Mother: The Impact Of Class, Age And Powerlessness,, Mirah Riben
Who Deserves To Be A Mother: The Impact Of Class, Age And Powerlessness,, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Worldwide, poverty far exceeds abuse, neglect or abandonment as adoption moves children from economically at-risk mothers to adopters of higher socio-economic status. Domestically, American mothers (and those in other industrialized countries) have historically lost children to protect their parents from the shame and stigma of out-of-wedlock, “unwed” pregnancy. It is socially created criteria such as age, marital and financial status, which change over time and place - not fitness - that determine who is considered "deserving" to be a mother and who is made to feel inadequate, selfish and undeserving of their own child. These criteria create pressure on marginalized, …
Adoption Loss, Pain, Irresolvable And Universal Grief, Mirah Riben
Adoption Loss, Pain, Irresolvable And Universal Grief, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Adoption loss is a limbo loss with no ritual or closure, that has been recognized as being irresolvable, creating increased risk of secondary infertility and post traumatic stress disorder. The pain is felt regardless of where the mother lives, how much she chose the decision and felt it was best. The grief, pain and anger do not lessen over time.
Alternatives Routes To Permanency: Is Adoption Always The Best Option, Mirah Riben
Alternatives Routes To Permanency: Is Adoption Always The Best Option, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
A presentation that asks if current adoption practices are optimally in the best interests of children and families they serve and offers family preserving options such as permanent legal guardianship or simple adoption in which the child rceeives the care he or she needs but doe snot involuntarily give up all ties to his or her family, genetics, and heredity.
Abandon All Hope...Profit Reigns Supreme, Mirah Riben
Abandon All Hope...Profit Reigns Supreme, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
No abstract provided.
Between The Lines: Seeking True Culpabaility, Mirah Riben
Between The Lines: Seeking True Culpabaility, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
No abstract provided.
A Perspective On Family Preservation, Mirah Riben
Dealing With Death, Mirah Riben
Book Review: What Lisa Knew, Mirah Riben
Book Review: What Lisa Knew, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
review of Joyce Johnson's book, "What Lisa Knew"
Book Review: Birth Bond, Mirah Riben
Book Review: Birth Bond, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Review of Birth Bond by Goldman and brown CUB Communicator, June 1990 Concerned United Birthparents, Des Moines, IA
Adoption: A Womyn's Issue, Mirah Riben
Review Of "Lethal Secrets", Mirah Riben
Book Review: Recreating Motherhood, Mirah Riben
Book Review: Recreating Motherhood, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
Review of "Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and technology in a Patriarchal Society" by Barbara Katz Rothman. CUB Communicator, June 1989 Page 3-4. Concerned United Birthparents, Des Moines, IA
"Class And Discrimination In The Denial Of Adoptees Equal Rights In Adoption", Mirah Riben
"Class And Discrimination In The Denial Of Adoptees Equal Rights In Adoption", Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
The Case For Open Records, A Source Book for Political Action. J. Sweely (Ed.) University Press of America, Inc., Waltham, MA. In Press.
Coping With The Heartbreak Of Loosing A Child To Adoption, Mirah Riben
Coping With The Heartbreak Of Loosing A Child To Adoption, Mirah Riben
Mirah Riben
No abstract provided.
Adoption May Not Be The Best Option, Mirah Riben
Jews And Adoption, Mirah Riben
The Cabbage Patch Phenomenon, Mirah Riben
The Changing Climate Of Foster Care, Mirah Riben
The Sealed Records Controversy, Mirah Riben
Adoption: A Circle Of Love, Mirah Riben
They Call Us Birth Mothers, Mirah Riben