Hugs and bravos, Marla!

We returned just last night from an amazing seven days in Honduras, the
better part of three of those with my son's birth and foster families.
(I distinguish between them here on alt.a.; he doesn't distinguish
between them at all.)

There are three new members of his birth family since our last visit,
all girls. Unfortunately, two of the girls are the daughter's of his
soon to be 16 sister and the third, a two year old, is the daughter of
his 19 year old sister. W's two younger sisters and two of his nieces
latched onto him and wouldn't let go.

His eldest sister, Y, was present at every visit. She's an amazing
woman who had her first child at age 15 and is doing her best to ensure
that her own children do not travel the same road. Her oldest, a
beautiful young woman of 16, has completed school - a family first.
The younger three are in school and working hard.

Again we get the number legally abandoned but no information on those
otherwise abandoned.

BTW, what is the universal symbol mentioned in the article?

J.

BabySafeHaven wrote:

It's pathetic that the state can provide the number of children
abandoned under the law but can't (or won't) provide the number
abandoned under other circumstances.

J.

BabySafeHaven wrote:

Observer article 9/March/1997
Fame at last! In an alleged book review in the Observer (Books p16), Jay Rayner writes about a "man called Bob"
(one of my many pseudonyms) in whom "a lot of people have shown an interest". Read and ponder!

Perhaps the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" could be re-worded into "may you be considered an
interesting person". Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!

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.net magazine article March/1998

Britain's .net Magazine featured my website on page 17 of their March 1998 issue (number 42). They quote from the "FAQ"
pages, and also include some details of the evidence I have tried to present on my website.

The age of some of the material on the website shows in this review, which says the case "has been discussed in uk.*
newsgroups during the past year". At this time (March 1998) it has been discussed on uk.misc for three years, and there
are still occasional traces of the discussion going on.

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.net magazine article March/1998

Britain's .net Magazine featured my website on page 17 of their March 1998 issue (number 42). They quote from the "FAQ"
pages, and also include some details of the evidence I have tried to present on my website.

The age of some of the material on the website shows in this review, which says the case "has been discussed in uk.*
newsgroups during the past year". At this time (March 1998) it has been discussed on uk.misc for three years, and there
are still occasional traces of the discussion going on.

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Hi all,

The clock has just chimed 12 downunder so it is officially 2007! A
very happy new year to each and every one of you. May it bring all
things wonderful your way.

Julia

In article centurytel.net>,
"Tori M" wrote:

Wow. Being in a warm temperate climate, it's very hard for me to picture
that. In Sydney in my area you can grow mangoes, bananas, and citrus fruit,
but also apples and peaches! I can plant seeds any week of the year, though
obviously not the same ones all year round. I can plant tomato seedlings in
September and harvest them through to March...

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

BitterHarvest wrote:

Yeah, and I think that people ought to stop being shocked when this
happens. I also think that people ought to stop demonizing women who
decide to parent after giving birth (a frequent theme in literature
geared toward PAPs).

The trouble with open adoption practices is that they (often) do a
piss-poor job of preparing PAPs for this eventuality. The advantage to
the closed/semi-open system is that PAPs had no knowledge they had been
chosen by a pregnant woman until after she had given birth and after
she relinquished.

Of course, good agencies make it very clear to PAPs that women have
every right to change their minds after giving birth. The agency that I
placed through has about a 50/50 rate of women parenting after giving
birth (even more decide to parent while they are still pregnant), and
they are very upfront with PAPs about this fact.

L.

"Kathy, the point I was making was that it has always been known that

I didn't change my mind. I was captivated by my baby, but nothing
changed after she was born. I stuck with my decision and I have never
felt otherwise.
Yes, I can't wait to meet her, and she has always been in my mind.
I have had lots of strange dreams about her. I wish I knew what her
voice sounds like, what her hand feels like, what it feels like to make
eye contact with her.
But I never changed my mind.