Publications & Citations

ARTICLE TITLE CLICK for Citations		PUBLICATION(S)	DATE
251	Parent-Adult Child Estrangement: A Growing Phenomenon	Medium	5/4/23
250	Famous and Infamous People I have Known	Medium	4/20/23
249	When the Bullet Hits the Bone: A Story of Survival	Medium	4/14/23
248	Long Term Health care: Buyer Beware	Medium	4/12/23
247	Adoptive Parent Child Abuse	Medium	2/22/23
246	Advertising Human Beings “Available” for Adoption: A Dangerous Practice that Must Stop	Medium	2/5/23
245	“Conversation” About Adoption with an AI at ChatBotGBT	Medium	2/4/23
244	Halloween and Adoption	Medium	11/2/22
243	Stop Using the Adoption Community as Pawns in the Political Battle Over Abortion	Medium	7/3/22
242	Selfishness Versus Self-Care: Warranted v Unwarranted Guilt	Medium	3/28/22
241	The Changing “Face” of Surrogacy: Normalizing an Anomaly	Medium	3/26/22
240	Reckoning with the Truth and Trauma of Adoption: Film Review	Medium	2/11/22
239	What Would Make the USA the Greatest Nation?	Medium	2/28/21
238	Life Lessons Learned: Putting the Pieces Together	Medium	5/23/21
237	Mirah’s Reflections: Bullying, Misogyny and Racism	Medium	6/3/21
236	RA: A Serious Disease Trivialized by a Name that Needs to be Changed	Medium	8/22/21
235	The Truth About Forced Pregnancies	Medium	12/15/21
234	Forced Pregnancies: Adoption Supply, Demand and Money in Decisions to Dismantle Roe V Wade	Dissident Voice	12/22/21
233	Adoption Be-AWARENESS, Sadness and Remembrance Month	Medium	11/9/21
232	Are Adoptees Grateful? Should they be? Should they be asked?	Medium	11/07/21
231	Ethical Issues in America Infant Adoption	Medium Dissident Voice	10/31/21 11/1/21
229/230	Surrogacy and Adoption are Not Gay Rights Issues	Dissident Voice Radio Free, Medium	10/9//21 10/10/21
228	The Lifelong Trauma of Adoption Relinquishment	Medium	08/21/21
227	The Extraordinary Lifelong Journey of Transracial Adoptees	Medium	5/10/21
226	Adoption Gratitude, the Humble Brag and Gaslighting	Medium	5/5/21
225	From the Frying Pan to the Fire: An Unnecessary Adoption Travesty that Must be Rectified	Medium	4/30/21
224	Is a “War on Adoption” Warranted?	Medium	3/9/21
223	“American Baby” Adoption Then and Now: Better or Worse?	Medium	1/24/21
222	Adoption: A Story of Loss	Medium	12/20/20
221	Mirah’s Reflections: Can we Heal the Divide?	Medium	11/9/20
220	Mirah’s Reflections: Moral Incompatibility is Tearing us Apart	Medium	10/27/20
219	Transracial Adoption Concerns are Warranted and Beyond Amy Coney Barrett	Medium	10/01/20
218	Who is the Unmasked Woman?	Medium	9/17/20
217	Mirah’s Reflections: Gratitude!	Medium	9/13/2
216	Mirah’s Reflections: Tense Times	Medium	08/24/20
	America’s cold war is heating up	Medium	8/02/20
214/215	Why is Surrogacy Illegal in Most of the World? Ethics and Risks	Dissident Voice Radio Free	07/11/20
213	Public and Private Adoption Language	Medium	07/2/4/19
212	The Invisible Shield of White Privilege	Medium	6/9/20
211	The Life of a Gentle Soul: My Cousin Alan Goldstein	Medium	4/29/20
210	COVID-19 in America: an avoidable crisis and loss of untold numbers of  lives	Medium Dissident Voice	3/28/20
209	This is no Conspiracy Theory	Medium	3/25/20
207/208	All Ways of Family Building are NOT Equal and do Not Protect Child’s Rights	Stop Surrogacy Now 2.   Dissident Voice	01/14/19
206	The truth behind the “Pro-Life”                 “Christian” fraudulent hypocrisy	M   Medium Dissident Voice	5/18/19
205	An open letter to the current occupant of the white house	Medium	1/10/19
204	Surrogate Handmaids and Contract Babies: CBS’ “Madam Secretary” Misses the Boat	Medium	11/19/18
203	When Adults Discover They Were Adopted: The Ultimate Betrayal / Life Hi-Jacked	Medium	10/18/18
201/202	Class and Race in Child Adoption	1.    Popular Resistance 2.    Dissident Voice	09/8/18 09/5/18
200	Adoption: In Whose Best Interest?	Dissident Voice	08/28/18
199	Adoption Loss	Dissident Voice	07/30/18
198	Is Adoption Legalized Kidnapping? To the child there may be little difference,	Dissident Voice	07/24/18
197	Separating ALL Mothers and Babies Should be a Last Resort	Dissident Voice	07/20/18
196	I'm the Ghost of Alicia	Sincerely	07/12/18
195	Why do students kill their classmates?	Dissident Voice	6/26/18
194	Gay Adoption: Is This Really the Most Pressing Issue in Adoption Today?	Dissident Voice	05/07/18
193	Nikolas Cruz: So Many Red Lights Ignored: Was Adoption an Issue?	Dissident Voice	02/25/18
192	Is Killing an Abuser Ever Justifiable?	Huffington post	12/13/17
191	Ban Blinding Headlights	Huffington post	1/2/18
190	Anger: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	Huffington Post	12/19/17
189	NY Times Misguided: Anonymous Human Ova Sale Creates a Danger	Huffington Post	12/06/17
188	Facts About Adoption You Won’t Hear from Adoption Professionals	Huffington Post	11/5/17
187	The Truth About the Adoption Tax Credit Hype	Huffington Post	11/21/17
186	#MeToo: in the wake of Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Huffington post	10/17/17
185	NFL Kneeling: American Tradition and Customs	Huffington post	10/2/17
184	Predatory Adoption Practices: What is an ADOPTORAPTOR?	Huffington Post	10/1/17
183	To the Writers of "Young Sheldon"	Huffington Post	09/24/17
182	Dear Mr. President	Huffington post	9/17/17
181	National Adoption Awareness Month 2017: Hearing and Honoring Adoptee Voices	Huffington Post	07/17/17
180	Guilty of Manslaughter: Suicide by Bullying	Huffington post	6/20/17
179	Stop the Unjust Deportation of Internationally Adopted Persons!	Huffington Post	06/1/17
178	Child Adoption and Parental Rights	Huffington Post	05/25/17
177	Who and What is “Real” In Adoption? It’s not a Competition	Huffington Post	05/24/17
176	Why Adopting is not a Very Feminist (or Liberal or Christian) Position,	Huffington Post	04/26/17
175	Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry.	Huffington Post	04/23/17
174	The History of Adoption: Two Views	Huffington Post	03/27/17
173	You Don't Look Adopted	Huffington Post	03/31/17
172	Living with the Myths and False Beliefs of Adoption is Hurtful	Huffington Post	03/15/17
171	Snow Storm Hoax?	Huffington post	3/15/17
170	Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Secrets (Review of Father Unknown by David Quint)	Huffington Post	02/16/17
169	Adoption and Abduction: Legal Differences, Emotional Similarities,	Huffington Post	01/28/17
168	A Radical Proposal for a Safer America	Huffington post	2/16/17
167	To Mothers (and Fathers) in Hiding or Denial	Huffington Post	01/13/17
166	The Long, Legal Process to Adopt Internationally	Huffington Post	01/3/17
165	Adoptees and Original Parents Speak Out About National Adoption Awareness Month,	Huffington Post	10/19/16
164	Robert Manzanares: A Father's Limitless Love and Battle for His Girl	Huffington Post	10/9/16
163	GOP  nominee: a rant and a serious proposition	Huffington post	10/9/16
162	Non-partisan Voting Issue: NJ Casino Amendment	Concordian	`0/2016
161	A Family and the Future of Adoption in the Hands of Ohio State Supreme Court	Huffington Post	09/19/16
160	What not to say to (and do to) people with deformities	Huffington post	8/30/16
159	Simone Biles: Gold-Winning Champion Unwittingly Opens Discussion of Adoption	Huffington Post	08/25/16
158	Daniel Williams: Undisputed Father Fights for His Rights	Huffington Post	08/4/16
157	Online dating	Concordian	7/2016
156	Help is Needed for International Adoptees Caught in a Legal - and Stateless Quagmire	Huffington Post	06/30/16
155	Adoption-Related Trauma and Moral Injury	Huffington Post	06/27/16
154	Bully Trump Turns Cry Baby: The Judge is Racist and Picking on me!	Huffington post	6/18/16
	Three cautionary tales	Concordian	5/2016
153	Family Preservation	Huffington Post	04/5/16
152	Drama and Truth: Custody of Lexi	Huffington Post	03/25/16
151	Thoughts on Aging	Huffington post	2/25/16
150	Stop this Injustice: Save Adam Crapser	Huffington Post	02/14/16
149	Kidney Transplants and Treatments Save Lives	Concordian	1/2016
148	How Best to Increase Organ Donations	Huffington Post	01/19/16
147	Infertility: The Important Missing Piece in  Health Education Curriculum	Huffington Post	12/30/15
146	Why All US States Should Allow Adoptees Access to Their Authentic Birth Certificates	Huffington Post	12/22/15
145	Abortion, Adoption and the Destruction of Family and Parental Rights	Huffington Post	12/14/15
144	The Hottest Gift this Holiday Season: Human Babies?	Huffington Post	12/10/15
143	Let’s Stop Encouraging a Dangerous Narcissist	Huffington post	12/10/14
142	Bridge of Spies: Did you Notice? Glaring Mistake or Joke?	Huffington post	10/28/15
141	Utah Baby Stealing, and the Ongoing War on Fathers	Huffington Post	11/29/15
140	Stop the Witch Hunt: In Defense of dr. Robert Oscar Lopez	Huffington post	11/13/14
139	Parental Equality, NOT “Adoption Equality”	Huffington Post	11/12/15
138	The Dark Side of Adoption	Huffington Post	11/10/15
137	Should Adoptees Have Access to their Birth Certificates?	Huffington Post	11/9/15
136	Fairness in Adoption?	Huffington Post	10/26/15
135	Broken Adoption: When "Forever" is an Illusion	Huffington Post	10/19/15
134	American Surrogate Death: NOT the First	Huffington Post	10/15/15
133	Avoiding Sibling Separation in Adoption	Huffington Post	09/29/15
132	The US GOA Report on Adoption Rehoming	Huffington Post	09/21/15
131	The International Adoption Debate	Huffington Post	09/22/15
130	Toward Preventing Adoption-Related Suicides	Huffington Post	09/1/4/15
129	Equal Access for Adoptees Cannot be Compromised	Huffington Post	09/8/15
128	The Perversion of American Birth Certificate	Huffington Post	09/2/15
127	Are Parents Interchangeable and Disposable?	Huffington Post	08/26/15
126	Donald Trump and the Polarization of America	Huffington post	8/12/15
125	Ellen Sonnefeld: Anne Frank’s Childhood Playmate	Concordian	8/20/15
124	Beware: Senior Safety in the 21st Century	Concordian
123	Losing a Child to Adoption Causes “A Hole in the Heart”	Huffington Post	08/10/15
122	Adoption Causes a "Split at the Root"	Huffington Post	07/24/15
121	Wrongful Adoption: Return Baby Elliott, Part II	Huffington Post	07/7/15
120	Wrongful Adoption: Return Baby Elliott, Part I	Huffington Post	07/7/15
119	Rights of Adopted Persons in Pennsylvania at Risk	Huffington Post	07/7/15
118	Update on Guatemala Kidnapping and American Adoption of Karen Monahan	Huffington Post	06/30/15
117	Bait and Switch Foils NY Adoptee Rights	Huffington Post	06/30/15
116	Being Blackish: Race and Self Identity	Huffington Post	06/23/15
115	A World Changing revolution? The Entrepreneurial Revolution	Huffington post	6/23/15
114	Voices From Adoptionland	Huffington Post	06/15/15
113	Human Factory Farming and the Campaign to Outlaw Surrogacy	Huffington Post	05/30/15
112	Honoring all Mothers on Mother’s Day	Huffington Post	05/7/15
111	Adoptee Access Protects Mothers' Privacy	Huffington Post	04/27/15
110	Did Rosie O’Donnell “Steal” Deanna Schilling Micoley’s Baby?	Huffington Post	04/14/15
109	Adam Crapser: Adopted, Abused and Facing Deportation	Huffington Post	04/8/15
108	Is Criminalizing ReHoming the Best Solution?	Huffington Post	04/3/15
107	The Trauma of Mothers Who Have Lost Children to Adoption	Huffington Post	03/14/15
106	Finding Family Truths and Roots	Huffington Post	03/13/15
105	Anonymous Third Party Reproduction Ignores Children's Rights and Welfare	Huffington Post	03/3/15
104	10 Really Shocking Facts About Child Adoption	Huffington Post	02/17/15
103	Flip-Flopping on Adoption: Aussie PM Proposes Shopping for Kids	Huffington Post	02/8/15
102	Adopted Child Doe and Amended Birth Certificates	Huffington Post	01/26/15
101	Adopted and Curious?	Huffington Post	01/20/15
100	Un-Adopting: Is Divorcing Adopted Children an Acceptable Option?	Huffington Post	01/20/15
99	Living with Adoptions' Dichotomies and Myths	Huffington Post	01/20/15
98	Connecticut Top Court to Rule on Teen’s Right to Refuse Chemotherapy	Huffington post	1/15/15
97	Adoption Criminality and Corruption	Huffington Post	01/14/15
96	Preventing Un-Adoption Tragedies	Huffington Post	01/3/15
95	Reinventing the Soundtrack of our Lives	Concordian	1/2015
94	Commercialized Conception Casualties: "Brave" Baby Making?	Centers for Genetics and Society	12/22/14
93	Guatemala Kidnapping/ American Adoption: Karen Monahan	Huffington Post	12/9/14
92	Fundraising for Adoption: Who Benefits?	Huffington Post	11/28/14
91	Documenting Adoptee Searches for Self	Huffington Post	11/25/14
90	Nat. Adoption Awareness Month: Hearing the Voice Part II	Huffington Post	11/19/14
89	Joan Rivers Explores the Dark Side of Adoption	Huffington Post	11/15/14
88	Nat. Adoption Awareness Month: Hearing Voices of Loss	Huffington Post	11/10/14
87	Educator Presents “An education”	Concordian	10/2014
86	Dubovs: Kindergarten to Married 58 Years	Concordian	10/2014
85	How I Came To Meet Joan Rivers	Concordian	11/2014
84	Impermanence: When Adoptions Fail	Huffington Post	10/30/14
83	Very Real Children, Not Synthetic, Are Being Denied Their Rights	Dissident Voice	05/27/15
82	The Sherri Shepherd Case: One More Reason to Ban Commercial Surrogacy	Dissident Voice	04/21/15
81	A Mother’s Fight for her Son (Carrie & Camden Stearns	Huffington Post	10/16/14
80	Angelina Jolie: A Human Rights Issue That Needs You	Huffington Post	10/8/14
79	70th Anniversary of Warsaw wedding: bill and Lil Biega	Concordian	8/2014
78	Senior Discounts, Yours for the Asking	Concordian	6/2014
77	Adoptees Who Kill: Examining the Ramifications of Adopted Child Syndrome	Crime Magazine	04/7/14
76	Rights of Child Must Come First in Adoption Laws	Courier-Post	02/6/14
75	All He Wanted for Christmas Was His Name	Adoption Voices	2014
74	Gov. B.O.E. Races Looming State and Local Elections	Concordian	11/2013
73	Electrifying Savings Possible with Twp’s Bulk Plan	Concordian	11/2013
72	Adopted then Discarded: Online Child Trafficking	Dissident Voice	10/19/13
71	Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities: Genetic Inheritance	Dissident Voice	10/17/13
70	What “Never Again” Means to Me	News blaze	6/4/13
59	Grouchy old men and cranky old women	Concordian	3/2013
68	Where is the Line Between Adoption and Child Buying?	Dissident Voice	03/30/13
67	Adoption Hype: Media Misrepresentations and Accepted Myths	Dissident Voice	01/31/13
	Statistics, politics, and solutions in the gun discussion	Dissident voice	1/30/13
66	The Last – and Least Recognized – Americans Denied Equal Rights	Dissident Voice	01/18/13
65	Russian Ban on US Adoptions: Is It Fair?	Dissident Voice	01/16/13
64	Adoption and Parenticide: Seeking Truth and Justice	Dissident Voice	07/24/12
63	Child Removal for Adoption: Financial “Solution” Versus Humane and Cost Effective Remedies	Dissident Voice	2012
62	American Babies Exported for Adoption	Dissident Voice	2012
61	Is the War on Abortion Heating Up?	News Blaze	2012
60	Alison Larkin: The English American Speaks Her Truth About Adoption	The Beacon: American Adoption Congress	2012
59	The Ironies of Adoption	AAC Decree: American Adoption Congress	2011
58	Repeal the Seal	AAC Decree: American Adoption Congress	2011
57	Mirah Riben Responds to St. Michael Patch Adoption Series	St. Michaels Patch	12/1/11
56	Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Baby Selling?	OpEd News	12/23/10
55	Facing the real issues in international adoption	Russia Behind the Headline	05/21/10
54	Tragedy Exploited: A Sad History Repeating Itself in Haiti	Dissident Voice	01/21/10
53	The Death of Common Courtesy and the Corrosion of the Golden Rule	OpEd News	01/1/10
52	Prophecy, Proselytizing, and Profit: Adopting Christian Soldiers	Dissident Voice	01/1/10
51	American Adoption Access Laws are and Policies are Upside Down and Backwards	AAC Decree: American Adoption Congress	2010
50	Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry	Conducive Magazine	2009
49	Suffer the Children: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable	Dissident Voice	11/23/09
48	The Truth Behind the 'Orphan' Movie Uproar: The Real Horrors in Adoption	OpEd News	07/25/09
47	Great Expectations for Young Mothers	OpEd News	07/5/08
46	Michael Moore Blows it on This One!	OpEd News	5/27/08
45	Interview with Adam Pertman	Adoptive Families Magazine, In press.	11/2008
43	Childless Mother: Guilty Until Proven Innocent	CounterCurrents	5 05/3/08
42	Review of Birthmark by Lorraine Dusky	Mothers in Action, Origins-USA	Winter 2008
41	States' sealed records discriminate against adoptees, families	USA Today, reprinted Adoptee Rights News	02/25/08
40	Juno: Fact And Fiction	CounterCurrents	02/21/08
39	The Juno Mystique: Separating Fact from Fiction	Associated Content	02/15/08
38	Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of a Mother who lost a child to adoption	Parents for Ethical Adoption  Reform	02/13/08
37	Pro-Life/Anti-Family	Associated Content	12/31/07
36	Adoption and the Role of the Religious Right	CounterCurrents	11/4/07
35	Is Promoting Adoption Healthy and Wise?	Associated Content	08/13/07
34	Revictimizing the Victim	Fleas Biting	07/10/07
33	Big Business In Babies: Adoption, The Child Commodities Market	CounterCurrents	05/25/07
32	Creating Motherless Children: Wombs for Rent	Associated Content	55 05/21/07
31	Adoption: The Child Commodities Market is Big Business	Associated Content	05/1/07
30	When Pro-Life is Anti-Family	CounterCurrents	01/2/07
29	The Baby Chase Pits Women Against Women: Who "Deserves" to Parent?	Associated Content	12/2/07
28	Rickie Solinger Speaks on Adoption (Interview)	Communicator, Concerned United Birthparents, cover story	Spring, 2006,
27	Adoption: Differing Experiences, review of The Open Adoption Experience by Melina & Roszia	Chain of Life	Winter 2001
26	Dear Bastards: Demand Equality!	Bastard Quarterly, Bastard Nation, Vol. 8, No 1	Spring/Summer
25	Abandon all Hope...Profit Reigns Supreme	AAC Decree, American Adoption Congress	1997
24	Open Adoption: Optimum or Oxymoron	Adoption Therapist, Hope Cottage, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 13-26	Fall 1995
23	A Perspective on Family Preservation	AAC Decree, American Adoption Congress, p. 5	Summer 1995
22	Review of Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief by Evelyn Burns Robinson	Bastard Quarterly, Bastard Nation	Winter 1995
21	Between the Lines: Seeking True Culpability	Communicator, Concerned United Birthparents	Jul/Aug 1995, pp 16-17
20	Dealing With Death	Adoption Therapist, Hope Cottage, Vol. 6,  No. 4, pp 5-8	Fall 1994
18/19	A Last Resort: Adoption should suits children, not childless couples	1.   Utne Reader, Vol. 4, pp. 53-54 2.   Social Issues Review Series, Vol. 4	Nov/Dec. 1992 1992
17	Adoption not Abortion?	Chain of Life, Issue # 16, p. 6	Nov/Dec 1991
16	Review of What Lisa Knew, by Joyce Johnson	Communicator, Concerned United Birthparents	June/July. 1991
15	A Last Resort: Adoption Should Suits Children, not Childless Couples	Macrocosm USA, p 147	1991
14	Adoption: A Women's Issue	Chain of Life, CA: Berkeley, #5	Jan/Feb 1990
13	Review of Birth Bond by Gediman and Brown	Communicator, Concerned United Birthparents	03/1990
12	Review of Recreating Motherhood by Gena Corea	Communicator, Concerned United Birthparents, P. 3	11/1990
11	Review of Lethal Secrets by Annette Baran	Communicator, Concerned United Birthparents	11/1989, p 12
10	Class and Discrimination in the Denial of Adoptees Equal Rights in Adoption: The Case For Open Records	A Source Book for Political Action, J. Sweely (Ed.) Univ. Press of America	1988. In Press
9	Coping with the Heartbreak of Losing a Child to Adoption	Jersey Woman	May/June 1987
8	Adoption May Not be the Best Option	Suburban Parent	05/1987
7	Jews and Adoption	The Jewish Press, NY: Brooklyn	01/23/87
6	They Call Us Birth Mothers	Family Journal	07/1984
5	The Cabbage Patch Phenomenon: More Than Just Kids' Stuff	The Woman's Newspaper of Princeton	02/12/84
4	Adoption: A Circle of Love	Mothering, Winter	1983
3	The Changing Climate of Foster Care	The Women's Newspaper of Princeton	08/1983
2	The Sealed Record Controversy	The Women's Newspaper of Princeton	05/1983
1	The Midwife as a Working Mother	Mothering, No. 17	Fall1980

CITATIONS
BOOKS that have cited or quoted Riben:
1.	Somebody's Children: The politics of transracial and transnational adoption, L Briggs - 2012
2.	The Child Catchers: Rescue, trafficking, and the new gospel of adoption, K Joyce - 2013 - books.google.com, [PDF] researchgate.net
3.	Intercountry adoption: Policies, practices, and outcomes.,  JL Gibbons, KE Smith Rotabi - 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
4.	The End of International Adoption?: Altruism, reproductive markets, and the "healthy child", E Fenton - 2016 repository.library.northeastern.edu, [PDF] northeastern.edu
5.	The End of International Adoption?: An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies, E Fenton - 2019 - books.google.com
6.	Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M, by Phyllis Chesler p.117.
7.	Adoption Healing: A path to recovery for mothers who lost children to adoption, by Joe Soll and Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
8.	Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary ...edited by Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz, Tulsi  (P. 32)   “In these settings, women involved as donors for oocytes or as surrogates are usually deprived of the standard of care provided to patients. This latter phenomenon is not restricted to women from developing countries but has also been documented for, e.g. the US (Riben 2016) and Canada (Gruben 2013) in the contexts of surrogacy and oocyte donation. (p.14)”
9.	Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, By Loretta Ross, Rickie Solinger
10.	The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 21, Number 1 (Spring 2016) edited by Donald Baker, Tracy L. Stob
11.	The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines edited by Robert L. Ballard, Naomi H. Goodno, Robert F. Cochran, p. 351
12.	Ethics in American Adoption by L. Anne Babb, p.90.  Personal narratives such as Schaefer’s The Other Mother (1991), Riben’s Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Adoption (1988), or Jone’s Birthmothers (1993) underscore the failure of many professionals to serve birth parents ethically or even competently.
13.	The Supernatural and the Monstrous-Feminine in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, Olga Glebova
JOURNAL ARTICLES and Book Chapters Riben works are CITED/QUOTED in:
14.	The Decline in Intercountry Adoptions and New Practices of Global Durrogacy: Global exploitation and human rights concerns, KS Rotabi, NF Bromfield - Affilia, 2012 -journals.sagepub.com, [PDF] academia.edu
15.	Child-adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race, M Baccara, A Collard-Wexler, L Felli, L  Yariv. American Economic Jr, 2014 - aeaweb.org, [PDF] aeaweb.org Full View
16.	International Child Adoption in a Post-Conflict Society: A multi-systemic assessment of Guatemala, KS Rotabi, AW Morris, MO Weil - Journal of Intergroup Relations, 2008, [PDF] academia.edu
17.	In an Era of Reform: A review of social work literature on intercountry adoption, KS Rotabi, KMC Bunkers, [PDF] sagepub.comFull View
18.	Monetary Flows and the Movements of Children: The transnational adoption industrial complex, KD McKee - Journal of Korean Studies, 2016 - muse.jhu.edu, [PDF] academia.edu
19.	Gender and Racial biases: Evidence from child adoption, M Baccara, A Collard-Wexler, L Felli, L Yariv - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com, [PDF] econstor.eu
20.	Adoption as a Reproductive Justice Issue, K McKee - Adoption & Culture, 2018 – JSTOR “The market of adoption relies on curtailing the reproductive choices of some women over others” (Riben)
21.	The One and the Many Sides of Social Business: A critical reflection, K. Kreutzer, S Mauksch - Social Business, 2014, Springer, [PDF] researchgate.net
22.	The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: An Analysis of Nation, Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora, KD McKee - 2013 - rave.ohiolink.ed, [PDF] ohiolink.edu
23.	International Adoption, KS Rotabi - Handbook of international social work:  2012 - books.google.com
24.	Human Trafficking and Intercountry Adoption, JL Gibbons - Women & Therapy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis, [PDF] westernsydney.edu.au
25.	Stolen Babies - Broken Hearts: Forced adoption in Australia 1881-1987, CA Cole - 2013 - researchdirect.westernsydney.edu
26.	Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race, M Baccara – 2012
27.	Poverty, Birth Families, Legal, and Social Protection, KS Rotabi, NF Bromfield, 2016 – Routledge
28.	Learning through Adoption: The intercountry adoption experiences of Canadian and Dutch Adopters of Children from the United States, DM Naughton - 2013 - etda.libraries.psu.edu, [PDF] psu.edu
29.	Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption, MB NYU, ACW NYU, L Yariv - 2009 - economics.yale.edu, [PDF] yale.edu
30.	Guatemala: Violence Against Women and Force, Fraud, and Coercion, Including Child Abduction into Adoption and a New System Emerging, KS Rotabi, NF Bromfield, 2016 – Routledge
31.	Marketing Black Babies Versus Recruiting Black Families: The Racialized Strategies Private Adoption Agencies Use to Find Homes for Black Babies, K Woodward - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
32.	The Consumption of Adoption and Adoptees in American Middlebrow Culture, K McKee - Biography, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
33.	Adoption Pedagogy: Implications for Praxis and Social Justice, JAK Matthews - Adoption & Culture, 2019 – JSTOR, [PDF] 169.236.240.21
34.	Open (Adoption) for Business: Opposing Movements and Environmental Opportunity Structures in the Adoption Organizational Field, 1972-2000, KM Frederico - 2012 - scholarsarchive.byu.edu, [PDF] byu.edu
35.	Women's Reproductive Rights - Spoiled for Choice? by Anna Kerr, 2018, Precedent Issue 122
36.	The 'new family' as an emerging norm: A commentary on the position of social work in assisted reproduction by Patricia Fronek
37.	The One and the Many Sides of Social Business: A Critical Reflection by Stefanie Mauksch, Chapter · March 2014
38.	Inputs on gestational surrogacy for the OHCHR Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, by Daneila Bandelli, LUMSA University in Rome Department of Human Stu
39.	Womens Reproductive Rights: Spoiled for Choice? Anna Kerr. Precedent (Sydney, N.S.W.) Issue 144 (Feb 2018)
40.	The Economics of Sex Trafficking Since the Legalization of Prostitution in Germany in 2002, Annegret Staiger
41.	Regulating Markets For Gestational Care: Comparative Perspectives On Surrogacy In The United States And India, Sital Kalantry, Cornell Journal of Law And Public Policy, Vol. 27:685
42.	Intercountry Adoption Privilege, Rights and Social Justice,  Patricia Fronek, Ph.D., Griffith University, Australia Denise Cuthbert, Ph.D. Rmit University, Australia And Indigo Willing, Ph.D. Griffith University, Australia, Chapter 13.
43.	In The Name of The Child: Race, Gender And Economics In Adoptive Girl V. Baby Girl, Bethany R. Berger. Florida Law Review, Vol 67
44.	Surrogacy: A Clash Of Competing Rights 2017, International Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters - European Family Law
45.	International Adoption and the Fight for Human Rights, by Hilbrand W.S. Westra/August/September 2009 Conductive Magazine, Aug/Sep, 2009
46.	Property in the Body: Feminine Perspective, By Donna Dickenson, Ch 4:
47.	The Future of Conception: Bioethics Research Library
48.	The Role of Media in the Development of U. S. Policy on Disrupted Adoptions of Children, By Madeline H. Engel, Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics,  Vol. 4 (2018 - 2019). “A critique of the GAO study appeared on the blog of Mirah Riben, who researches, writes about and speaks on the adoption industry. Riben is encouraged ‘to see any federal level of oversight of adoption,’ but is quick to add a generally negative evaluation of the study:  “[O]ne wonders the cost to taxpayers to have these bean-counters confirm what we knew two years ago and decide that they MAY increase the number of hours of training for pre-adoptive parents and encourage states to do more about this very serious threat to the safety and well-being of adopted children.  “Judging from her comment about ‘bean counters,’ Riben found more value in the earlier (2013) Reuters’ study than that by the GAO.” Page 8
49.	Aspects of Polarization: Discussion about the Political Mood in American Society, by A.Y. Bykov
50.	Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption, Fedders, Barbara, 6/1/2010, Volume 88, No. 5 Globalization, Families, and the State, NC Law Review
51.	Single fathers by choice: Memoirs of getting twins and triplets via transnational gestational surrogacy by Linda Layne
52.	The 'New Family' as an Emerging Norm: A Commentary on the Position of Social Work in Assisted Reproduction by Marilyn Crawshaw  “Increasingly, political dialogue in neo-liberal societies is linking involuntary childlessness with discourses that promote the ‘rescue’ of children by adoption, the acceptability of altruistic surrogacy and gamete donation (even where large sums of money change hands in the guise of ‘reasonable expenses’ and ‘compensation for inconvenience’) and the right to exercise one’s consumer rights via commercial surrogacy for those that can afford it, sometimes leaving children n precarious legal and citizenship limbo (Cuthbert et al., 2009; Riben,2012)”
53.	Intercountry adoption: Privilege, Rights and Social Justice by Patricia Fronek, Denise Cuthbert.
54.	Take Off the [Color] Blinders: How Ignoring the Hague Convention Subsidiary Principle Furthers Structural Racism Against Black American Children by DeLeith Duke Gossett, Santa Clara Law Review, Vol 55, No 2, 10-7-2015
55.	Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism the Fantasy of the Global Family  by Tobias Hubinette, Third Text · Nov. 2012,D, OI: 10.1080/09528822.2012.732291
56.	The Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee (SOCHUM) is the third General Assembly Committee, established in 1947 alongside the other General Assembly (GA) committees. Cahsmun Horizons, 2019.
57.	Open (Adoption) for Business: Opposing Movements and Environmental Opportunity Structures in the Adoption Organizational Field, 1972-2000, Krista Marie Frederico Brigham Young University – Provo, 2012-06-08
58.	Pathologizing Trauma: A Discourse Analysis of Diagnosis in Adoption by Fiona Trotter, City University of Seattle Victoria BC, Canada, May 2017
59.	Understanding American Identity: An Introduction by, Mark A. Widmer Bradley M. Erickson December 2017 “. . . diversity (and the methodology for assigning people to racial and ethnic groups) is itself largely a socially constructed endeavor and even these categories have shifted over time. This is because each individual is comprised of a mosaic of identities—especially in America. Mirah Riben makes this point in her article entitled, “Being Black-ish: Race and Self-Identification’.”
60.	Intercountry Adoption and The Right To Identity: The Application Of The Subsidiarity Principle In Brazil, Patrick Noordoven, Aug 2019 “The fight for equality by adopted citizens is considered to be a civil rights movement (RIBEN, 2015).”
61.	Surrogacy And Limitations to Freedom of Contract: Toward Being More Fully Human, Adeline A. Allen, Harvard Journal Of Law & Public Policy, VOL. 41, No. 3 Summer 2018
62.	The Case for Moratoria on Intercountry Adoption, David M. Smolin, Accepted for Publication, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2021)
63.	Vínculos y contactos socioafectivos de las familias españolas con gestantes por sustitución de Estados Unidos, Canadá y Uc
64.	The US-Russian Child Adoption Agreement- An End to Failed Adoptions, Cheryl L. Allen, Fordham International Law Journal, Volume 35, Issue 6 2012 Article 1
65.	“Serious Enquiries Only, Please”: Ethical Issues Raised by the Online Human Remains Trade, Dr. Damien Huffer; Dr. Nathan Charlton, Dept. of Archaeology & Classical Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. “The skeletal human remains trade is itself a component of the larger “red market” (sensu Carney 2011) that traffics in living and dead human beings and their fresh or preserved tissues, including such disparate areas of research as corrupt adoption agencies (e.g. Riben 2015), the illicit organ trade, sources of bodies donated to medical education and research (e.g. Wordsworth 2015), corruption in blood donation and sale (e.g. Anand 2015), etc.”
66.	At This Critical Juncture In The Era Of Reform: Reviewing 35 Years Of Social Work Literature On Intercountry Adoption, Karen Smith Rotabi
67.	In an Era of Reform: A Review of Social Work Literature on Intercountry Adoption, Karen Smith Rotabi, Kelley McCreery Bunkers. First Published November 25, 2011
68.	Moral Injury and the Complexities of Adoption, by Chris Prange-Morgan M.A., MSW, Psychology Today, 2/25/22
69.	Aporetic origins: Narratives of transnational, transracial Asian adoption in a North American context by Jenny Lauren Heijun Willis, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2012
70.	The Insensitivity of Adoption Day Celebrations, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
71.	The Controversy of ‘Gotcha Day’,  Considering  Adoption
72.	The Trouble With ‘Juno’, Chicago Times, 2/21/08
73.	Suicide Ideation, Lifeline Children’s Services
74.	Family Preservation Mantra, Family Preservation Foundation
75.	Finding Out You Are Adopted Late in Life, Adoptee Revelations, 10/30/18
76.	Surrender and Subordination: Birth Mothers and Adoption Law Reform, Elizabeth J. Samuels, Michigan Jr. of Gender and Law, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2013
77.	Recent film's view on teen pregnancy sparks heated debates, Taiwan News, 2/25/08
78.	Is Criminalizing Re-Homing the Best Solution? A Look Into Safe Adoption Policy, Columbia Social Work Review, Vol. VII, PDF
79.	Adopting a New Voice for Adoption, Waters Production
Wikipedia Pages Mirah Riben is Cited in:
80.	International Adoption
81.	A Girl Like Her
SEE ALSO: Riben in Google Scholar
One of Riben’s Poems is Quoted Here

Updated 3/28/22