Are
you young, pregnant, and single?
Do people put you down for being unmarried
or young?
Are people calling you a birthparent
or telling you that your baby deserves a two-parent
family? Do you feel pressured to "place" your
baby for adoption?
You are a natural mother. And you and
your baby
together are already a family. A NATURAL FAMILY. A family created by God and Nature
(not by
the adoption industry and State
adoption laws)
The
purpose of this site is to celebrate NATURAL FAMILIES in all shapes
and sizes! But especially to help those natural families where young
parents are under pressure to "place" their babies for
adoption.
As
a young expectant parent today in the U.S. or Canada, you'll see
a lot of "choose adoption" advertising
by adoption agencies, facilitators, or lawyers. They have customers
waiting for babies - for YOUR baby. Demand for babies for adoption
outstrips "supply" by 40 to 1. This means there could
be up to 40 infertile
couples who want your baby. You got pregnant. They couldn't.
In
the face of overwhelming pressure by adopters, baby-brokers, and
often their own parents, many young parents are still keeping and
raising their babies!
Many
mothers who surrendered ("placed") their babies for adoption
have discovered the unending
pain and grief that adoption professionals never told them about.
Many reunited "birth-"mothers (including the 22 reunited
mothers who created this site) have discovered upon reunion that
adoption did incredible
amounts of emotional damage to their children. That adoption
is NOT "a loving option" and was NOT "in the best
interest of the child."
"I
am so thankful to have found this site. I am the young mother (20)
of a beautiful, 9 week old baby boy. During the end of my pregnancy,
I started thinking adoption would be the best thing for my son because
his father and I are not married and do not even get along. Now that
he is in my life, I love him more then I could have ever imagined
and wouldn't give him up for the world but sometimes wonder if I am
doing the best thing for him. I have been looking for a site to give
me the strength to believe I am doing the right thing. I have great
support from my mom and all of my family which makes things a lot
easier. I think I am doing the best thing and am going to be the best
mother I can be. Thanks.:"
- Melissa, 22 January 2002 - Washington State
"Adoption
is a violent act, a political act of aggression towards a woman
who has supposedly offended the sexual mores by committing the unforgivable
act of not suppressing her sexuality, and therefore not keeping
it for trading purposes through traditional marriage. The crime
is a grave one, for she threatens the very fabric of our society.
The penalty is severe. She is stripped of her child by a variety
of subtle and not so subtle manoeuvres and then brutally abandoned."
- Joss Shawyer, Death
by Adoption, Cicada Press (1979)
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KEEP YOUR BABY AND NOT LIVE IN POVERTY!
OUR NATION PROMISED IT TO US IN 1948:
Proclaimed
by the General Assembly of the United Nations (including the
U.S. and Canada) on December 10, 1948. Following this historic
act the Assembly called upon all Member countries "to
cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded
principally in schools and other educational institutions,
without distinction based on the political status of countries
or territories."
"
ARTICLE 25:
" (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living
ADEQUATE FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING of himself and of
his FAMILY, including food, clothing, housing and medical
care and necessary social services, and the right to security
in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood,
old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond
his control.
" (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special
care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out
of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection."
WE
BELIEVE THAT OUR NATION SHOULD KEEP ITS PROMISE OF 1948. SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE FOR ALL FAMILIES WHO NEED IT AND IT SHOULD
NOT BE POVERTY-LEVEL!
ALL CHILDREN DESERVE ALL OF THEIR NECESSITIES COVERED!
OTHER "CIVILIZED" NATIONS REALIZE THIS - WHY NOT
OURS?
GOVERNMENT-ENFORCED POVERTY IS FINANCIAL COERCION OF
SINGLE MOTHERS TO SURRENDER THEIR BABIES.
Considering
Adoption? Call 1-866-4-1-TRUTH toll-free hotline for expectant parents