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"Ensuring Ethical Practice in Child Adoption: A Guide for Legislators, Practitioners and Consumers of Adoption Services"
Revised and updated for: The Evolution of Adoption Practice: Activist and Community Perspectives, Adoption Initiative Biennial Conference 2020/2022, St. John's University in Collaboration with Montclair State University
ABSTRACT: Everyone assumes adoption is in the best interest of children. Is it?
In whose best interest are fraudulent birth certificates?
Are there sufficient regulations and enforceable guidelines in place to eliminate corruption, commodification, exploitation, coercion and conflict of interest?
How much does money play a part?
Discussion of ethical issues with a focus on payments of expenses and conflict of interest in legal counsel for relinquishing mothers within the U.S.
Suggested solutions to prevent scamming of prospective adopters and coercion expectant mothers which can cause contested adoptions which are lengthy and costly for all parties.
Russian Television
- RT Interview I US tries to thaw Russia's adoption freeze
- RT Interview II Storks return babies too
- RT Interview III Inside America's "stork market"
- RT Interview IV Adopted children not safe in US, better protected in Russia
The Morton Downey Jr. Show:
- Part i: Panel discussing open records with Joe Sol and Carol Gustavson
- Part III: Morton Downey Jr Show
In 1990, Joan Rivers had a short-lived talk show. I was invited for an episode discussing the 1987 case of Joel Steinberg who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his 6-year-old illegally adopted daughter, Lisa. There was also neglected a toddler boy found in the Steinberg-Nussbaum house. I worked with the DA's office to track down his original family and counseled them to regain custody. I appeared on the show with the grandmother of that boy, GraceAnn Smeigal.
- The Universality of Losing a Child to Adoption, Presented at Adoption Community of New England, April 17, 2010
- 'Open Records' versus 'Equal Access: Reexamining our Goals" April 2009: AAC in Cleveland.
Older Presentations:
- (2010) Defining Ethics in Domestic and Global Adoption Practice, Open Arms, Open Minds: The Ethics of Adoption in the 21st Century
- (2008) "Speaking of Adoption" with Donna Montalbano, WOON Radio, Oct. 28
- (2008) "Speaking of Adoption" with Donna Montalbano, WOON Radio, Jan. 8.
- (2007) The American Perspective: The Student Operated Press, Judyth Piazza, April
12. - (2007) The Adoption Show: Voices Ending The Myth. Michelle Edmonds, June 17.
- (1989) Joan Rivers. Segment with Grace Anne Smiegel, grandmother of Lisa who
was killed by Joel Steinberg, Part I, Part II - (1988) Morton Downey Jr. Show. The Dark Side of Adoption,
- (1988) Geraldo Rivera Show. “Private Adoption: White Knights or Flesh Peddlers?” Part I, Part II, Part III,
- (1987) Community View. Interview, July. Jackson Cablevision, NJ: Jacksonville.
NON-ADOPTION SLIDE SHOWS:
The Hundredth Monkey
Ahimsa
Namaste
Mitakuye Oyasin
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