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Mirah Riben is a human rights activist with a focus on families, children and adoption reform. She is author of two internationally acclaimed books - "shedding light on...The Dark Side of Adoption" (1988) and "THE STORK MARKET: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry (2008) and more than 200 articles. http://MirahRiben.blogspot.com

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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 13, 2010
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Baby Selling? Profit motives in a the mega-billion dollar child adoption industry and misguided do-gooders promote the redistribution of children over any efforts to ameliorate the tragedies that cause family separation and loss that leads to adoption. Prof. Elizabeth Bartholet is an extremist who believes baby selling is not serious.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 31, 2009
The Death of Common Courtesy and the Corrosion of the Golden Rule The more means we find to communicate, the less meaningful communication and caring interactions, leaving "Please," "Excuse me," and "Thank you" in the dust.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 25, 2009
The Truth Behind the 'Orphan' Movie Uproar: The Real Horrors in Adoption What is behind the dismay and protests of the soon to be released film "Orphan"? Will the film reduce adoption of chidlren who need homes? Does it perpetuate myths or debunk them? What are the real horrors of adoption?
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 5, 2008
Great Expectations for Young Mothers How alarmed need we be about teen pregnancy rates? Is adoption the solution?
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Michael Moore Blows it on This One! Michael Moore defends Madonna in her questionable adoption of a non-orphan, as Human Rights organizations and experts blame her for causing more harm than good.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 17, 2008
JUNO: Separating Fact from Fiction Dispelling adoption myths portrayed in the film, Juno
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 31, 2007
When Pro-Life is Anti-Family Florida's pro-life license plate fund raiser promotes adoption and is anti-family.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 22, 2007
Adoption: Pitting Women Against Women Delayed childbearing and infertility make babies a high demand commodity and pit women against women.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 11, 2007
Rethinking Adoption: The Role of the Religious Right National adoption month -- and programs to encourage adoption, intended to focus on the needs of chidlren in foster care -- do not distinguish and often use foster care as a smoke screen promote the big business of infant adoption spurred on by the agenda of the religious right, who are connected with many adoption agencies who are in the business of placing babies.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 27, 2007
Family Secrets adoption, ABC, TV, Prime Time
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Revictimizing Victims New book continues the child sexual abuse of Masha aka Mea Allen.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 20, 2007
BOYCOTT ADOPTION.COM Adoption.com supports agencies and adoption facilitators, which are unregulated and profit from child placement.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 13, 2007
A Mothers' Day Letter to Angelina Jolie... International adoption, foster care
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 6, 2007
All In One Day's News Evangelicals call for promotion of adoption to improve their image, yet adoption is laden with corruption...
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 3, 2007
Guilty Until Proven Innocent; The Dark Side of Adoption Lack of knowledge of the unregulated, entrepreneurial aspect of American infant adoption in which healthy white children are a hot commodity, can have lifelong devastating effects on mothers and their children.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Babies and Big Business: The Child Commodities Market A condensation of "The Stork Market: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry" (2007) Advocate Publicatons.com

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