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	What is Bastard Nation? A Short History by Damsel Plum
		Bastard Nation asserts that it is the right of people everywhere to have their official original birth record unaltered and free from falsification, and that the adoptive status of any person should not prohibit them from exercising such a right.
		Bastard Nation's primary goal is the opening to adoptees, upon request at age of majority, of those government documents which pertain to the adoptee's historical, genetic, and legal identity, including the unaltered original birth certificate and adoption decree.
		Bastard Nation does not support mandated mutual consent registries or intermediary systems in place of fully open records, nor any other system that is less than access on demand to the adult adoptee, without compromise, and without qualification.
	www.adopting.org /WhatIsBastardNation.html (856 words)

	Illegitimacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bastard Nation, an advocacy group for the rights of adopted children, has attempted to "reclaim" it as a neutral or self-respecting term.
		In those cultures the fathers of bastard children did not incur the same censure nor, generally, much legal responsibility, due both to social attitudes about sex and the difficulty of determining the father of a child with any degree of accuracy.
		In the UK the notion of bastardy was effectively abolished by the introduction of The Children Act 1989 (which came into force in 1991), by virtue of introducing the concept of parental responsibility which ensures that a child can have a legal father even if that child's parents were not married.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illegitimate (746 words)

	Bastard Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term bastard is employed both for shock value, and in an effort to reclaim the term for common usage (as was done by the organization Queer Nation with the word queer).
		Bastard Nation is a North American adoptee rights organization.
		The name is a reference to the fact that most adopted children were born illegitimate, hence are literally bastards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bastard_Nation (185 words)

	A Few Bastardly Thoughts -
		Bastard Nation is generally pleased with the recent publication of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute's report, "Unintended Consequences: "Safe Haven" Laws are Causing Problems not Solving Them," and we are greatly pleased that their prominent and influential voice has joined the ranks of Safe Haven critics.
		Bastard Nation and like-minded adoptee rights activists know too well the damage caused in the past 20 years by well-intentioned reformers who were willing to take " baby steps" along the yellow brick road to open records.
		Bastard Nation believes, however, that Safe Haven/Baby Moses laws are simply a backdoor attempt to codify anonymous and secret adoption.
	library.adoption.com /adopting/adopt/article/5075/1.html (1106 words)

	Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation & Ballot Initiative 58.
		Bastard Nation, according to Carp’s account, distanced itself from this question, which to my mind, is perhaps one of the most critical questions that this issue raises: I believe that one cannot divorce the controversy around women’s reproductive rights in this country from the question of open adoption records.
		It seems that despite Bastard Nation’s appearance as a radical organization, its goals were profoundly conservative: the restoration of biological kinship, and, perhaps of maternal responsibility and “correct” motherhood.
		Interestingly, the vast majority of the members of Bastard Nation, at least in its inception, were women, and most birth parents to be affected by the opening of birth records would be, in fact, birth mothers.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/carp205.htm (918 words)

	Adoption History: Bastard Nation
		Bastard Nationals, as they like to call themselves, are fiercely determined to accomplish two primary goals: open access to records as a matter of basic civil rights and unfettered expression for adult adoptees.
		Members of Bastard Nation have participated in numerous public demonstrations against confidentiality and sealed records and in favor of adoption dignity, including protests against reform organizations, such as the National Council for Adoption, which opposes open records.
		A feisty organizational newcomer to the landscape of adoption reform, Bastard Nation was a term first coined by Marley Greiner, a contributor to the Usenet newsgroup, alt.adoption.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~adoption/people/bastardnation.htm (432 words)

	HotWired: Synapse - Garfinkel
		Bastard Nation, a political-action organization that is fighting to reform the nation's adoption laws.
		But a growing number of adoptees in the United States, including those at Bastard Nation, are voicing their anger at the secrecy and feel that the privacy of birth parents has come at the expense of their children.
		Incorporated last October, Bastard Nation now claims 500 members and is growing fast - thanks, in part, to the power of the Internet to spread information and create special-interest communities.
	www.simson.net /clips/1997/97.Synapse.Adoption.htm (1567 words)

	The Psychology of Self-Defeatism in Adoption Reform--all kinds of adoption resources for pre-adoptive parents looking to adopt, for birth family searching for birth children for adoption professionals and adoption agency information
		One of the reasons I believe Bastard Nation is growing so quickly is that it strikes a chord with adoptees tired of wallowing in the self-defeatist, second-best, victim status conferred upon them by society, their families or the "Primal Wound".
		Bastard Nation was born out of the imaginations of about 35 people on an Internet newsgroup.
		Many people, upon first hearing Bastard Nation's name are taken aback, shocked, offended and confused.
	www.adopting.org /adoptionReform2.html (973 words)

	The Bastard Nation Moment? -
		The bastard moment is an episode in an adoptee's life which emphasizes some of the more negative aspects of being adopted: lack of entitlement, alienation and shame.
		Bastard Nation moments give us the strength to stand up to the lies, misinformation, secrecy and shame which some would like to see persist in adoption.
		The Bastard Nation moment is an episode in an adoptee's life which makes you proud to be a Bastard.
	library.adoption.com /Adult-Adoptees/The-Bastard-Nation-Moment/article/2792/1.html (676 words)

	Human Life Review: rise of "bastard nation", The
		Greiner, the executive chair of Bastard Nation, refers to mothers as "breeders," spells America with a "k," and signs her postings to Internet chat rooms "by all means necessary." Yet she blames the ugliness of the adoption records debate squarely on the other side.
		Bastard Nation's rhetoric and tactics resemble those of gay activist groups such as Queer Nation and ACT UP.
		And in Washington State, Bastard Nation and other activists are gearing up for an open-records initiative in 2001 like the one in Oregon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3798/is_200101/ai_n8944479 (1365 words)

	byline_200410.htm
		Kudos to Bastard National Brenda Romanchik for being chosen as an "Angel in Adoption." The Angels in Adoption Program was established in 1999 to provide an opportunity for members of the United States Congress to recognize and honor the adoption-arena work of their constituents who have enriched the lives of others with their contributions.
		Bastard Nation was the impetus that turned Rebecca from an adoptee to an adoptee-activist.
		Bastard Nation opposes all Safe Haven laws, despite their good intent, because we believe they are ultimately anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-family.
	www.adopteerights.org /byline_200410.htm (2159 words)

	Bastard Nation Released: Adoption Records Legislation
		Bastard Nation does not support vetos, registries or anything other than unrestricted access to birth and adoption records for adult adoptees.
	influx.uoregon.edu /1997/bastards/laws.html (242 words)

	Willamette Week - Portland's News Buzz - March 25, 1998
		Members of national adoptee-rights group Bastard Nation were in town to bring attention to the ballot initiative that would give adult adoptees the same access to their original birth certificates that the rest of the populace has.
		Now, Bastard Nation, led by adoptees, has put off many old-time adoption reformers because of its uncompromising demand for complete open records to adult adoptees.
		While "BASTARD" is no longer stamped on the birth certificates of illegitimate children, the fact that adults who were adopted cannot see their original records is evidence that the state still bastardizes adoptees, according to Shea Grimm of BN's executive committee.
	www.wweek.com /html/newsbuzz032598.html (1466 words)

	Willamette Week Urban Pulse
		A year ago, Bastard Nation's annual conference was long on hope and short on victories.
		About 100 Bastard Nationals from around the country descended on the Boardwalk Holiday Inn for three days of revelry, speechifying and bastard training.
		The most powerful national group is the American Adoption Congress, based in Washington, D.C. The AAC has been working for years to open records and is responsible for the new law in Tennessee.
	www.wweek.com /html/urbanpulse101399.html (1217 words)

	Fairfield Co. Weekly: The Woman In the Attic 2
		Bastard Nation's agenda is simple: The organization wants open records for adult adoptees, support for searches and reunions and freedom of expression about the adoption experience.
		In 1997, Bastard Nation waged war against American Greetings for a Valentine's card that read: "Sis, even if you were adopted I'd still love you." Inside: "But come to think of it you don't really look like mom and dad." The company discontinued the card and issued a public apology.
		Patterned after the gay-rights group Queer Nation, Bastard Nation is the nation's largest and most vocal nonpartisan adoptee activist organization and reunification movement.
	old.fairfieldweekly.com /articles/adoption2.html (1216 words)

	National Adoption Attitudes Survey Comments from Marley Greiner of Bastard Nation -
		Marley Greiner is co-founder and Executive Chair of Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization, and editor and publisher of Baby Dump News, a weekly report on Safe Haven (legal baby abandonment) laws.
		Disclaimer: The views in this essay are the personal views of the author, not the views of Bastard Nation.
		Executive Chair, Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization
	www.adoptioninformation.com /resources/article/062502a.htm (783 words)

	Bastard Nation
		* The membership of Bastard Nation, the population of adopted citizens, and the cause of dignity in being adopted.
		Bastard Nationals at the Bastards on the Bay Conference, San Francisco 1998
		Bastard Nation's work to establish respect, dignity and equal rights for adoptees.
	www.bastards.org /members (367 words)

	Washington Resources
		The national conference was sponsored by Bastard Nation, an in-your-face group that wants unconditional access to original birth certificates for all adult adoptees.
		"Adoptees should have the same rights as everyone else to see the official record of their birth," says Julie Dennis, Bastard Nation's legislative chairwoman for Washington state.
		Bastard Nation 12865 NE 85th St, Ste 179 Kirkland, WA 98033
	www.birthfamily.com /deitrahs/WASHINGTON.html (979 words)

	How Can I Help Adoptees?
		Bastard Nation is dedicated to the recognition of the full human and civil rights of adult adoptees.
		All profits from sales of BNB merchandise go to Bastard Nation's efforts to spread the word of adoptee dignity and to getting legislation passed for open records for adult adoptees.
		The Bastard Nation Boutique is where the best-dressed Bastards shop to support Open Records for Adult Adoptees.
	www.measurablerights.com /help.html (224 words)

	Fox Adopts "Daddy" - Dec 15, 2004 - E! Online News
		As executive chair of Bastard Nation, a civil-rights organization for adoptees, Greiner argues that laws that prevent adoptees from finding their birth parents are the problem.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,15527,00.html (480 words)

	thebastard
		Sometimes, the Bastard may have never even SEEN or come anywhere NEAR the person or product, but are more or less aching to make a joke about it.
		All opinions, as the Bastard calls them, are based strictly on the Bastard's feelings.
		Old or new, good or bad, is summarily dealt with without any kind of fear or remorse.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/thebastard (97 words)

	2BB - Bastard Nation
		Bastard Nation is the forerunner in adoptee civil rights.
		For Bastard Nation bracelets, just make a note on the order to specify.
		30% of the purchase price of this bracelet goes to support Bastard Nationals around the world.
	www.2beadingbroads.com /bastardnation.html (133 words)

	Bastard Nation MetaFilter
		Part of Bastard Nation's point -- and other adoptee activists' -- is that the basic claim of American adoption of the 50s/60s/70s was that it wasn't that big of a deal.
		"Why is my birth certificate a state secret?" asks Bastard Nation.
		As a nonadopted bastard, I am offened that this group is trying to take my identity away from me by making it about adoption rights.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/39158 (8144 words)

	Subject Guide Template
		Bastard Nation consistently has the most complete and extensive information for search resources, activism and legal information.
		National Association of Social Workers A professional association which works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
		CSWE - Council on Social Work Education A nonprofit national association founded in 1952 is a partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the U.S. Government Information and Regulators
	www.auraria.edu /findit/subj_guides/social/socialwk.html (1285 words)

	Bastard Nation Realeased: Search & Reunite
		Even though he didn’t quite believe it, he signed up with a searcher from Bastard Nation and gave her the name.
		The story of Proud Bastard Drew Shimkus’s search for and reunion with his birth parents is one of many being played out by adoptees across the country every day.
		Within 24 hours she sent him the name and number of a woman in California that she thought was his birth mother.
	influx.uoregon.edu /1997/bastards/search.html (1151 words)

	Search Groups - Adoption Encyclopedia
		National organizations include the ADOPTEES' LIBERTY MOVEMENT ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN ADOPTION CONGRESS, the provocatively named Bastard Nation and CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS INC. The INTERNATIONAL SOUNDEX REUNION REGISTRY, while not a search group per se, has a philosophy that makes it more than simply a passive registry.
		Organizations that assist adopted people, birthparents, adoptive parents and others in identifying and locating birth relatives.
		It is clearly linked to most of the search groups.
	encyclopedia.adoption.com /entry/search-groups/322/1.html (468 words)

	The Adoption Revolution Led by Adoptees Searching on the Internet
		They had their first national convention back in the summer of 1997, and I am certain it is the first of many.
		At the rate they are growing they may become one of the largest national forces in the adoption reform movement.
		Another document adding to the growing mountain of evidence gathered by adoptees pleading for open records is the keynote address given by Rev. Tom Brosnan to the 1996 National Maternity and Adoption Conference for Catholic Charities USA in April 1996 in San Antonio, Texas.
	www.openadoption.org /bbetzen/adoptee.htm (960 words)

	Bastard Nation Realeased: TIES
		TIES is connected to Bastard Nation because, Schwarz says, until all adoption records are unsealed, the emergency search is the best way to help those who most urgently need their records.
		Schwarz and several other Bastard Nationals began the program in December 1996, after they learned about an HIV-positive adoptee named Grady who wanted to find his birth mother before it was too late.
		Kimble found out about Bastard Nation and the TIES program during her recovery and asked TIES to search for her birth father.
	influx.uoregon.edu /1997/bastards/ties.html (757 words)

	www.myspace.com/bastardnation
		Bastard Nation has played several gigs in the surrounding area of Cologne, Germany and will restart with the new line-up at the end of 2005.
		A typical Bastard Nation live show is an homage to supreme rock-star-posing from the good old Rock’n’Roll days.
		Bastard Nation writes Heavy Metal songs inspired by 80's bands such as Iron Maiden, Accept and Metallica.
	www.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=6995830&Mytoken=20050327092236 (611 words)

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