FOUND AND LOST SUPPORT is an on-line support group for those who have been separated from a biological family member by adoption, searched for that family member and found a grave. Thanks again Linn for your support.
Jul 6 2007 3:41PHi Linn,I'm hoping you will help to spread the word of a new MySpace page: MOTHERS AWAITING REUNION.Mothers Awaiting Reunion is a much needed MySpace site for young women who have surrendered a child/children to adoption and need guidance and encouragement from others who are going thru the same pain and issues while waiting for the right time to search.Please check it out at: http://www.myspace.com/mothersawaitingreunionHugs, Maz
Hugs,
Denise in NJ
Michael's Mother
DOB: 12/23/69
DOD: 5/26/88
LTR: 5/30/88
FOUND: 5/30/03
www.foundandlostsupport.com
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Get your own customized TShirtCold Case, which aired on CBS (I believe) was a true interpretation of what we girls went thru living in the unwed mother's homes of the 60's.
For instance...
* Having to write the "list" of what we could & could not offer our child.
*Telling us that "No good man would ever marry us if we kept our babies."
*Our child would be labeled a "Bastard."
*Every child needs both a mother and a father.
*We would go on and forget this ever happened.
*We would have more children.
*The list could go on and on...
Well, guess what, WE NEVER FORGOT. Many of us were never able to have more children. Then, to add insult to injury, some of our children were unfortunately adopted by couples who got divorced. Some even drank too much & abused our precious children.
What made the Adoption system think adoptive parents were perfect and so much better than us? Because they had money? Prestige?
What about a mother's love (regardless of her age/social standing)? What about the bond, the connection every child has with his/her natural mother? A bond that can never be replaced.
Susan Mello Souza author THE SAME SMILE.***********.
Get your own customized TShirtDid you know that THE FLORENCE CRITTEN HOME for unwed mothers started from a home to care for prostitutes?
The Florence Crittenton homes were founded by Charles Crittenton, a wealthy New York druggist who opened a home to care for young prostitutes in New York in 1883. He named the National Florence Crittenton Mission after his 4-year-old daughter, who died of scarlet fever in 1882. Crittenton opened homes in 50 U.S. cities.The first director, or matron, was Anna Dugas Barrett, who had been active in the rescue movement in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York City... The national mission was headed by Kate Harwood Waller Barrett (1857-1925) beginning in 1909 and she helped steer the rescue-home movement away from the reformation of prostitutes and toward the social welfare of the unwed mother.
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I'd like to meet:
I would love to hear from the girls I lived with at FCH in Toledo, Ohio in 1965. I have so many questions and so many blank memories . I think that we could help each other fill in the blanks. I have this crazy idea that we could meet in Toledo...like a class reunion. This may help the healing process for so many of us. I don..t know about you but I never forgot...they told us we would. A day has not gone by that I didn..t think about my baby boy. All of you are a part of my memories and my secrets. What happened to all of you?
It is my hope that this will be a place where other ladies from FCH will gather to renew friendships and make new friends.
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Music:
Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band was the first of the many concerts that we went to.
Elvis
The Eagles
Movies:
What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com
Television:
Rate my photo, Click here I usually watch TV for an hour or so in the early evening and it is usually the Life Time channel Reba and Still Standing. After 11pm I like to watch shows like Cold Case Files, The First 48 and more of the same. I am a seller on eBay and spend my evenings on the computer.
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Books:
THE SAME SMILE by Susan Mello Souza & her "found" daughter, Joanne Medeiros
TWENTY THINGS ADOPTED KIDS WISH THEIR ADOPTIVE PARENS KNEW by Sherrie Eldridge
FINDING ME IN A PAPER BAG by Sally Howard
CHASING AWAY THE SHADOWS by Zare Phillips
THE OTHER MOTHER by Carol Schaefer
THE GIRLS WHO WENT AWAY by Ann Fessler
I PROMISE I..LL FIND YOU by Heather Patricia Ward Illustrated by Sheila McGraw (a childrens book)
Heroes:
Steve, my first child, for surviving your adoption experience and searching for me. I have always loved you...always will.
Jason, my 2nd son, for your survival skills in matters of the heart.
Gavin, my 3rd child, for being a loving and caring husband and daddy.
Adam, my 4th son, for his fierce loyality and his sence of humor.
My dear hubby, Steven, for loving me for 35 years. You are my rock, my friend, my lover.
FirstMoms and the children they lost to adoption when unwed was unfit.
FMR
Maz
Ann Fessler
