Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
I have 1 fans: Become a Fan. You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEd News
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
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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 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 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Revictimizing Victims
New book continues the child sexual abuse of Masha aka Mea Allen.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 20, 2007 BOYCOTT ADOPTION.COM
Adoption.com supports agencies and adoption facilitators, which are unregulated and profit from child placement.
(2 comments) SHARE 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 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.