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enlightening materials such as the top ten myths about abortion homosexuality is not a civil right politicized science the manipulated approval of ru 486 and its dangers to women s health homosexuality in your child s school and how to raise an american don t believe me check it out for yourself warning link takes you to the family research council s website so bring a generously sized barf bucket besides the obvious questions why would dems align themselves with the pro life movement i have a few more questions for the democrats what will you do to assure that the rights of natural families are protected in this country from unethical adoption practices will you establish a national clearinghouse and an ombudsman for handling adoption complaints from natural families will you regulate the currrently unregulated business of adoption will you establish laws under which people wrongfully defrauded of their children can receive the due process guaranteed by the constitution what will you do about the problems in intercountry adoption and what measures will you institute to protect the defenseless babies who are the end all be all of adoption what will you do to prevent future lisa steinbergs and nicoli emelyantsevs what do you intend to do about the rogue s gallery of adoption nearest and dearest to my heart democrats two questions when are you going open your eyes to the fact that life in adoptionland is not the way the public including you dear dems perceive it as a progressive i have a very difficult time reconciling the exploitative nature of unethical adoption with democratic values the other question when oh when is the democratic party the protector of social justice in america going to wake up to the fact that a million or so lady baby boomers suffered an outrageous attack on their human and civil rights via coerced forced adoptions during the baby scoop era i d really like an answer dems barb for myself posted by for bseri at 5 08 pm 4 comments labels adoption democratic platform marketing monday july 28 2008 on being flat out wrong a brief history of adoption theory during the bse in 1940 columbia university established a graduate program in social work the discipline had ambitions to elevate its status to that of other professionals columbia began awarding masters degrees in social work in 1940 and doctoral degrees in 1952 importantly columbia also pioneered the field of psychiatric social work freudian thought was much in vogue after wwii and the developing discipline of psychiatric social work was heavily influenced by his theories this was a boon for social workers striving to raise the professional profile of their discipline by claiming expertise in an esoteric and poorly understood field psychoanalysis social work could stake out some professional territory for itself in 1963 social worker leontine r young was awarded her doctoral degree from columbia university although her dissertation was titled the behavior syndrome of parents who neglect and abuse their children she also claimed expertise in the area of unmarried mothers young s view of unmarried mothers was directly informed by freudian theory her view was that unmarried mothers were mentally ill individuals who came from sick families nope no kidding this is what she believed from the university of oregon s adoption history project http www uoregon edu adoption archive youngppum htm leontine young was considered one of the country s foremost authorities on unmarried mothers in the early postwar era she contends here that non marital pregnancy expressed deep neuroses and required sophisticated psychological interpretation and adjustment illegitimacy young believed was the result of emotional conflicts rooted in predictable negative patterns of childhood development and family life the study on which this conclusion was based deliberately excluded girls coming from a cultural background where illegitimacy is more or less socially acceptable this was an indirect reference to african americans and other minority communities whose supposed toleration of nonmarital pregnancy frequently justified racial discrimination in the delivery of adoption services the perception that illegitimacy was most problematic among white americans was widely shared by professionals and laypeople alike at a time when freudianism and therapeutic culture generally had reached its zenith in the united states the above is an abstract of an article young penned titled personality patterns in unmarried mothers 1945 1947 an excerpt from the article some inferences certainly there are common elements in the backgrounds of these girls most conspicuous is the fact that none of them had happy healthy relationships with their parents whatever the particular family situation the conflicting feelings of love and hate remained a basic and potent source of unhappiness and trouble almost equally noticeable was the dominance of the mother the strength and the pervasiveness of the role she played in this complex drama the more dominating the more sadistic the more rejecting the mother the sicker and more hopeless was the girl all these girls unhappy and driven by unconscious needs had blindly sought a way out of their emotional dilemma by having an out of wedlock child none of these violent neurotic conflicts are helpful ingredients in creating a good mother young went on to author four books and became a professor at ohio state her writings became vastly influential and were cited numerous times by scholars the influence of her theory on field workers was enormous leontine young became a social work goddess her theory became cw and was widely disseminated to physicians pastors anyone who might have contact with these young women her theory was exported to other english speaking countries even making it into the british medical journal in 1966 an excerpt leontine young and tess of the d urbervilles some thoughts on illegitimacy by alfred white franklin m b b ch f r c p reads as follows conclusion immoral wicked vicious unfortunate wronged ignorant all these diagnoses colour the picture few concerned try to discover what is really wrong the too ready pity of the doctor may lead to unwise advice perhaps only through fully experiencing the pregnancy facing the result and possessing and caring for the baby can the girl penetrate the obscuring veil of fantasy self deceit self torture to emerge into the necessary world of reality cold and hard this may be but perhaps it is her one chance to be freed from her crippling involvement in the web of family emotions many of these girls are mentally sick people whose self prescribing of a pregnancy has only added one more social problem for themselves their families and the community emphasis added for the complete article please see http www pubmedcentral nih gov picrender fcgi artid 1844555 blobtype pdf warning pdf the interesting thing about this article is that while franklin is in agreement with young about the diagnosis he is in disagreement with the treatment for the problem more on this further down this entry the bottom line here is that this psychosocial theory of single motherhood as neuroses rapidly gained ascendancy in the united states and in english speaking countries around the globe it had currency anywhere that single mothers contacted the social welfare system maternity homes doctors offices hospitals the psychological consulting room the pastor s office single mothers were not viewed as healthy sexually active women who were trapped between their biology and the culture of their times please remember that in the u s griswold was decided in 1965 and only applied to married couples and that roe was years off into the future as a result single mothers were regarded everywhere as living examples of infantile sexuality run amok neurotic sex delinquents but happily scientifically in the best american spirit of ingenuity and can do the system offered hope of a cure too the claim was that the unmarried mom could be cured of her neurosis if she released her baby for adoption the result was that in the united states and in canada the uk and australia all of whom followed the american model the pressure on white unmarried mothers to release their newborn babies for adoption became enormous it must be mentioned that this pressure dovetailed nicely with the political agendas of people who wished to keep single mothers off welfare people who wished to advance their moral agendas by punishing women who exercized sexual agency people who made a profit from adoption fees people who were infertile and garden variety misogynists for instance babies born out of wedlock are no longer considered a social problem white physically healthy babies are considered by many to be a social boon i e a valuable commodity social work and social problems 1964 national association of social workers quote courtesy karen wb of bseri or society has seemed more interested in punishing the unwed mother and her illegitimate child than in understanding the social economic and psychological forces which have placed them in a deviant social position the unwed mother edited by robert w roberts harper row copyright 1966 quote courtesy karen wb of bseri or unwed mothers should be punished and they should be punished by taking their children away dr marion hilliard of women s college hospital daily telegraph toronto november 1956 quote courtesy karen wb of bseri it should further be mentioned that the adoption option was an ahistoric one the redemptive aspects of responsible single motherhood had long been regarded by the child welfare community as the prescription for the sin of premarital sex social workers entering the field changed all that during the baby scoop era unmarried mothers became a boon to people more powerful than us some coveted our babies for profit or to raise to others we were just another political tool this was all of course regardless of the costs to us moms damn the torpedos full speed ahead these social and political pressure played out in maternity home policies that kept women isolated and immersed in a carefully cultivated atmosphere of intense powerlessness and shame women in these homes were subjected to a thoughtfully designed counselling program whose goal was to lead them to the inescapable conclusion that adoption was not only best for their babies it was also their ticket out of the neuroses the experts alleged was the cause of their pregnancies on admission to these homes women were stripped of all ties to their previous lives clothing possessions personal money none of it was allowed false names were assigned to be used in the home incoming and outgoing mail was read phone contact was extremely limited leaving the premises was tightly controlled and never ever ever allowed without a chaperone of some kind women were routinely and by design not advised of the rights nor of any specific social welfare resource available to them to help them keep and raise their babies women have testified repeatedly that if they asked they were informed that welfare was not going not be sufficient for their needs they were further told that they and their children would be outcasts for life they were told they had nothing of value to offer their own children and in fact they would be harmful even toxic to their own children women were not permitted access to attorneys personal friends including the baby s fathers or anyone else who might act as a social support offer help or offer a different view of alternatives to adoption only mortified grandparents in waiting were permitted visitation for a few hours on sundays a few quotes from contemporaneous writings an unwed mother who releases her child for adoption needs legal counsel as to her rights and the termination of same only an attorney is qualified to spell out and interpret these rights to her unfortunately most mothers of children born out of wedlock are frequently in fear or shame misguided legally by persons not qualified to interpret these rights counseling the unwed mother by helen e terkelsen copyright 1964 quote courtesy karen wb of bseri here s another the first thing the unmarried mother is likely to lose is her right to make important decisions the agency or community tells her what she must do if she is to receive the services she needs in most instances the plan for the baby is pre determined often these matters are decided without her being able to state her own preferences helping unmarried mothers by rose bernstein copyright 1971 emphasis added quote courtesy karen wb of bseri these pressures played out in hospital policies as well young mothers were frequently left to labor alone many women have testified to punitive obstetric practices such as not administering pain medication in a timely manner if at all other places practiced veterinary obstetrics heavily sedating women and then delivering the babies via forceps while mom was in full leather restraints many hospitals did not allow the newly delivered woman any access to the baby at all in fact many women were never even allowed to see their children after birth it can not be emphasized enough that these women were the legal mothers of these babies yet their babies were forcibly removed and secreted away it also must be said that practices varied from place to place some women were allowed to see hold and feed their babies even for up to 10 days afterwards it was thought that at the end of the ten day interval removing the baby taught a more memorable lesson to the youthful sex deviant than merely removing her baby from her at birth surrender practices also varied some women succumbed to the pressures and signed surrender papers believing it was best there are women who have stated that the baby was snatched from their arms as they tried to leave the hospital there are women like me who were threatened with involuntary incarceration in mental health facilities and removal of any subsequent children if we did not sign remember we were neurotic and possibly even psychotic there are women who have stated they were incarcerated in mental health facilities during their pregnancies there are women who have stated that they were made to sign papers while sedated there are women who still have amnesia for the signing of the papers down to this very day and there are women many many women in fact who have remained silent all their lives about their adoption experiences one can only conjecture why there are a lot of possibilities but the final outcome of these practices was that all these women lost their babies to closed stranger adoption the consequences of this loss have been life long for many of us known consequences range from secondary infertility to clinical depression with many varied grief reactions the stories so many of these women tell are enlightening and depressing what subsequent social history and these narratives show is that leon...