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Keynote 100
Rickie Solinger, PhD, Historian, Author
Who Gets to Be a "Real" Mother? Who Decides? -- How Americans Have Answered these Questions Over Time.
From slavery time, through eras of peak immigration, and during the invention of adoption in the mid-twentieth century, various groups of girls and women have been vulnerable in various ways, as they tried to claim their right to be the mothers of the children they gave birth to. Rickie will show how fragile the right to be a mother has been, and how fragile it remains for many girls and women today. |
Key to Symbols: A-1st Parent Realities, C- On Being Adopted, E - Search Ethics, F-Support Issues, G - Healing Concepts, H - Clinically Speaking, I- The Road Ahead, J - Other, S- Self Help |
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Robert Hafetz, Adoptee, MHP
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How can you cry when you never knew her? Pre verbal infant memory and how it can influence thoughts and feelings in adoptees.
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102
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Bernie Glintz, Adoptee, MHP
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The Psychological Integration of Two Mothers: The Post Reunion Experience: Mental, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of the post reunion experience and the psychological negotiation of First and Adopted Mothers in the post reunion experience.
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Deborah Blanchard, Mother, Educator
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Why all Reunions are not Created Equal: Issues will be explored in detail why some reunions go well and others do not. Genetic attraction will also be addressed.
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Jean Provance, Adoptee, MHP
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What's in a Name? :heritage, ancestry or legacy to past and future generations. What about the adoptee, whose name may not match their face and does not necessarily, reflect their origins? An exploration of naming children across various cultures and through religious
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107
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Janet Henegan, MHP, Australia
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Ethical dilemma in post adoption mediation: Ethical issues that arise in mediating contact between natural family relatives
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Nicole Burton, Adoptee
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Life Across the Pond: UK and US Approaches to Open Records: A Briton's perspective
33 years after birth records were opened, and the lessons learned for the US.
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Debra Baker, Mother, Filmmaker
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Broken Ties - The Reality of Adoption Loss: Viewing of "Broken Ties", the presenter's award-winning documentary about the experience of losing her child to adoption, and the life-long effects of relinquishment. |
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Carol Schaefer, mother, author;
Zara Phillips, adoptee, filmmaker, singer
Glenn Goldberg, adoptee, educator |
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Silent Partners: Adoption and Addiction. A panel discussion |
** We would like to suggest that you use terms such as "mother," "natural mother," or "first mother"
(other examples are "parent," 'first father," "natural family," etc.) in presentations, as opposed to using "birth" prefixes.
(An increasing number of mothers of adoption loss and adoptees experience this prefix as offensive and oppressive). Thank you!
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