It is no secret that Mrs. Kelsey ignores adoptee criticism of baby boxes other than to say we “hate adoption” or the popular “you had a bad experience,” often appended with, “I’ll be praying for you.” I can probably count on one paw the number of even mild adoptee oppositionists that have been “allowed” to post on the company’s FB page. (TikTok gets some.) Supportive adoptees, of course, are always welcome.
I cannot remember any birthparent opposition permitted to rear its ugly head on the page. but …
…now comes the wonderfully blatant shitbomb dropped by Mothers of Loss (to adoption) a few hours ago, politely camouflaged as a question we all know the answer to. So far it has passed the resident SHBB Inc FB censor. (The SHBB Inc reality show verifies that a staff member vets comments for negativity. ) Maybe she is off on a Thanksgiving holiday.
Mothers of Loss (to Adoption) ·
Will you help provide temporary support and encouragement to help her keep and nurture her baby, usually just enough until she can find work and child care? Or will you encourage her to abandon her baby to strangers and explain that her baby will have a much higher exposure to abuse housed with people who are not biologically related, and a higher rate of self-harm and suicide? Will you tell her she will suffer remorse and grief and separation anxiety for the rest of her life if she abandons her infant?
I can only imagine the shock of baby box fans that beneficiary mothers/firstmothers/birthmothers of loss and experience might object to this simple no-fuss form of baby erasure…oops, I mean adoption surrender. Note: I use the term “surrender,” not in the way that it is used by baby box folks as some kind of celebratory PR stunt but as how those mothers use it: a white flag. A defeat.
Oh the ingratitude! Oh, the chutzpah! After all we have done for your kind of people. These transgressive mothers will no doubt receive the same condescending response that their progeny, (that is, Class Bastard) receives: you are an anomaly. Seek therapy!
Kitty Litter!
Addenda: J I was just about to post this when I checked the SHBB FB page for an update. Oh my! Mrs Kelsey has not responded, but a couple of her fans did with typical blather about “lives/generations being saved,” but adoptee Sarah Glossop made it through the blockade. I don’ t know Sarah, but good show! Since nary is heard a discouraging word, SHBBN has banned us and our colleagues from posting, but I hope some of our friends could politely let their voices be heard. . This could be fun.
Sarah Glossop
What do you do to support mothers in crisis, how do you help them before they get to this point or are you simply suppliers of womb wet babies for the US adoption industry
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Sarah Glossop
Ron Airey how so, do you know how it feels to be adopted. Rather than supporting mothers in a temporary crisis they’d rather encourage her to relinquish her baby. Losing your mother is a traumatic event on a cellular level and should never be encouraged. You know society has failed when mothers are not given the right support. As an adoptee I can tell you my loved experience of being relinquished has caused me a trauma so big you’d not comprehend and I was a “lucky” adoptee who had a relatively good childhood.
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Now that that beastly National Adoption Awareness Month is done and gone, the PB and I had hoped to take a rest to gear up for the coming year. …but stuff happens. Legislative season is encroaching on our good humor There is mischief afoot throughout the land ie no rest for the wicked. Off to take a cat nap for now…In love and solidarity, Angelika, the Personal Assistant Cat.
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