tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post6528810011949110542..comments2023-05-21T01:53:32.046-07:00Comments on Marginal Perspectives: Lies, Infantilism, and Lack of Ethicsms. marginaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854609171313401651noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-56263772179729405092012-02-24T07:30:35.289-08:002012-02-24T07:30:35.289-08:00"One final point: there are people who like t..."One final point: there are people who like to roll their [virtual] eyes when we say that babies, in adoption, had no choice in the matter."<br /><br />I also don't get this, because it seems like a self-evident fact to me.Third Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310395341252295955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-16297303777896221022012-02-03T09:21:39.590-08:002012-02-03T09:21:39.590-08:00Great thoughtful post, considering all you went th...Great thoughtful post, considering all you went through. <br /><br />Kimberly Leighton, ethicist with head on backwards, made me so mad I wanted to spit. She she fell into the same group as the hard-hearted legislators we deal with all the time--what about the birth mothers?--I always want to scream--what about the ones who did not want anonymity? <br /><br />I hope you don't mind if I post a link here to our take on Leighton's comments regarding adoptees right to search for birth parents over at FMF:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.firstmotherforum.com/2012/01/when-adoptees-right-to-know-becomes.html" rel="nofollow">When adoptees' Right to Know becomes a philosphical debate, adoptees lose</a>Lorraine Duskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-38740236516473738592012-02-02T23:45:40.356-08:002012-02-02T23:45:40.356-08:00Whow Mrs M!!!!So agree with every word. I too spen...Whow Mrs M!!!!So agree with every word. I too spent a great many years thinking it all through very carefully and wanting to do the right thing.In the end my mother contacted the Dept in the same month I did in a neat piece of synchronicity, considering I was almost 50 and she 24 years older!I'd had her name since I was 32. Several years ago once my father's other children had been found they said 'What took you so long?'<br />Too many assumptions and so sad coming from an adoptee.Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17421069895155350144noreply@blogger.com