“Site Your Source”

All The Links … To All The Things …To Back Up All The Information.

“Adoptees Are 4x More Likely To Commit Suicide.”

National Library of Medicine, Margaret A. Keyes, PhD

“Adoption Is A $24.7 Billion Dollar Industry.”

IBIS World

“Children In Homes With Adults Not Related To Them Are 8x More Likely To Die Of Maltreatment.”

American Academy of Pediatrics

“Georgia Tann, Often Considered To Be The Founder Of Modern Day Adoption, Stole Over 5,000 Children.”

The New York Post, Nick Poppy

“Adoptees Who Are Adopted Prior To Age Three Experience Pre-Verbal Trauma.”

Abigail Esquivel & The Adoption Exchange

“There Are Not “So Many Babies” Waiting To Be Adopted.”

The Atlantic, H. Armstrong Roberts

Ap News, David Crary

“Children Who Experience Foster Care Are More Likely To Experience Homelessness.”

Youth.Gov

“Orphanages Do Not Exist In America.”

Adoption.com

“Georgia Tann Made Millions By Stealing And Selling Babies.”

Ranker, Noelle Talmon

“Between 1945 and 1973 More Than 1.5 Million Women Were Forced To Place Their Children For Adoption.”

Time, Kelly O’Connor McNees

“Open Adoption Is Not Enforceable.”

This is only partially correct according to adoptmatch.com.

Adoption.org, often considered by many to be a more reliable source, has an article as well that seems to support the notion that open adoptions can be enforceable in some states under certain circumstances.

Open Adoption is not enforceable in the following states according to the.com site:

  • Delaware

  • Hawaii

  • Idaho

  • Illinois

  • Iowa

  • Kansas

  • Kentucky

  • Maine

  • Michigan

  • Mississippi

  • North Carolina

  • New Hampshire

  • New Jersey

  • North Dakota

  • Ohio

  • South Carolina

  • South Dakota

  • Wyoming

    Open Adoption is enforceable only under “Special Circumstances” in the following states:

  • Alabama

  • Indiana

  • Oklahoma

  • Texas

  • Utah

  • Vermont 

  • Wisconsin