PEAR Board Member, Barbara McArtney guest blogs on REFORM Talk as part of The Unofficial “Why the adoption establishment annoys me” Blog Week:http://reformtalk.blogspot.com/2012/02/guest-blogger-barbara-mcartney-on-why.html Ethics, Transparency, Support~ What All Adoptions Deserve.http://www.pear-now.org/ People for Ethical Adoption Reform www.pear-now.org

Focus On Children – Sentencing scheduled for February 19

Sentencing for Focus on Children’s Karen and Scott Banks, Dan Wakefield, Coleen Bartlett and Karalee Thornock is scheduled for February 19, 2009. In January, they pleaded guilty to counts of aiding and abetting the improper entry of an alien for putting false information on immigration forms during the performance of adoption services relating to FOC’s Samoa program. Although the plea …

The Un-Angry Adoptee and Adoption Guilt

~ By Barbara J McArtney I was relinquished at birth to a local agency and adopted at 6 weeks of age. I was told by my Parents that my birth Parents “gave me up” because they were unmarried college students. My Parents adopted following the death of their second born son and simultaneous loss of my Mother’s fertility. I am …