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Chosen Children |
DESCRIPTION - REVIEWS - CONTENTS
Download time is usually fast but varies depending on your Internet service, so be patient. When fully downloaded, the book can be Browsed, Searched (by Right Clicking your mouse--choose "Find"), Saved, and/or Printed."
Re: "Chosen" and not "born." "...Because of how adopters present this, I am one of many adoptees who pictured themselves at a supermarket with their adopters browsing the aisles of babies as they pushed their cart along. Adoption rhetoric doesn't allow for a story of our birth, a connection to humanity. No wonder so many of us felt we were aliens. I remember my adopters' natural son remarking, when my "chosen" story was told, "Yeah, you weren't born -- you were hatched!" My adopters never corrected him because they were incapable of even thinking about my actual birth, much less speaking of it. Ugh. being "chosen" by your adopters is NOTHING compared with being UNchosen by your own mother (which, despite the circumstances, is how most of us feel)."
--posted by adoptee, Julie, on Adoption Insights Message Board 10/5/03
Chosen Children is in 3 parts - Part I: The Problems--identifies the issues and follows the dollars to identify special interests; Part II: The Alternatives--identifies programs that work; Part III: The Chosen Children--identifies the victims and includes true case histories and in-depth stories of hundreds of incarcerated adoptees to reveal what makes their crimes unique...(the "why").
"True crime" books sensationalize the crime (the "what"), while Chosen Children provides the stories behind the stories (the "why"). The author, who has visited prisons, found an overrepresentation of adoptees among the 2-million who are incarcerated nationwide. She has researched hundreds of these adoptees from interviews, records, and correspondence and reunited many of them with their families. The book gives them a face and a voice for the first time, to show how the Foster Care and Adoption industries fuels the Prison industry and vice-versa.
The number of case histories in Chosen Children is the largest ever compiled in one book, and they are supported by excerpted newsclips, extensive data with sources and in-depth first-person narratives by incarcerated adoptees, including Michael Getty, Tom McGee, Greg Mox, Kevin Smith, Noah Stone, Harold Williams, Jeremy Strohmeyer, to name just a few. They are thieves, drug addicts, murderers, gang members, sex offenders--all linked by their adoption-related behaviors and broken birth bonds....the "billion dollar babies" in America's foster care, adoption and prison systems.
For further information, see article, "Killer Adoptees: Don't Shoot the Messenger" at: http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/killer-adoptees-dont-shoot-the-messenger.html
New Business News article about
this Web Page -
http://www.newbusinessnews.com/story/01070101.html
"ABOLISH ADOPTION" - A PETITION - http://www.amfor.net
Tons of "help organizations" and model programs http://www.overthrowthegov.com
Homeless Shelters in the United States - http://www.gtii.com/members/lannin/shelters/us.htm
JAIL MAIL - FREE Prisoner Penpal Service and More http://community-2.webtv.net/JailMailPenpals/Index
Conquest House Ministries Inc
dba Conquest Offender Reintegration Ministries -
http://www.conquesthouse.org/services.html
Delancy Street Foundation
("model" residential drug rehab and
welfare reform program in CA/NY/NM/NC) -
http://delanceystfndtn.citysearch.com/
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) (sentencing reform) - http://famm.org
CENTURION MINISTRIES
"Freeing the Innocent Imprisoned" Committee -
http://www.criminaljustice.org/public.nsf/freeform/CenturionMinistries?OPenDocument
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - http://hrw.org/contact.html
INNOCENCE PROJECT
Post-Conviction DNA Testing -
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
ACLU NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT - http://www.aclu.org/issues/prisons/npp_mission.html
