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Author of "shedding light on...The Dark Side of Adoption" (1988) and "The Stork Market: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry" (2007) www.AdvocatePublications.org

MIRAH (aka Marsha) RIBEN has been researching, writing and speaking about the need to reform, humanize, and de-commercialize American adoption practices for nearly three decades.

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14 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 17 Comments, 1 Diaries, 0 Polls

14 Articles

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?

Saturday, July 5, 2008
Great Expectations for Young Mothers
How alarmed need we be about teen pregnancy rates? Is adoption the solution?

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.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
JUNO: Separating Fact from Fiction
Dispelling adoption myths portrayed in the film, Juno

Monday, December 31, 2007
When Pro-Life is Anti-Family
(5 comments) Florida's pro-life license plate fund raiser promotes adoption and is anti-family.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
Adoption: Pitting Women Against Women
(2 comments) Delayed childbearing and infertility make babies a high demand commodity and pit women against women.

Sunday, November 11, 2007
Rethinking Adoption: The Role of the Religious Right
(1 comments) 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.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Family Secrets
adoption, ABC, TV, Prime Time

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Revictimizing Victims
(1 comments) New book continues the child sexual abuse of Masha aka Mea Allen.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
BOYCOTT ADOPTION.COM
(12 comments) Adoption.com supports agencies and adoption facilitators, which are unregulated and profit from child placement.

Sunday, May 13, 2007
A Mothers' Day Letter to Angelina Jolie...
(12 comments) International adoption, foster care

Sunday, May 6, 2007
All In One Day's News
(2 comments) Evangelicals call for promotion of adoption to improve their image, yet adoption is laden with corruption...

Thursday, May 3, 2007
Guilty Until Proven Innocent; The Dark Side of Adoption
(3 comments) 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.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Babies and Big Business: The Child Commodities Market
(3 comments) A condensation of "The Stork Market: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry" (2007) Advocate Publicatons.com

 

 

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