The Adoption Advocacy Newsgroup Charter
Celeste
The Adoption Advocacy Newsgroup Charter
Important Addresses:
Submission address for moderation:
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: It is highly recommended and your message will be
processed and reach the newsgroup sooner if you send it directly to this
submission address via e*mail.
Moderator name and contact address: Celeste Piliponis
cel...@usa.net
This newsgroup has a campanion web page at:
http://home.revealed.net/celeste
For those doing research projects or those who just have many question and
are curious, there is an archive of information at:
http://home.revealed.net/celeste/archives.html
These 17 arhives are also available for ftp download at:
ftp://members.aol.com/Celest920/archives/archives.sit
General Purpose:
This is a moderated newsgroup with a primary purpose to provide a
conservative focus-group for pro-adoption public policy and legislative
issues and pro-family think tank for dissemination of ideas and
pro-adoption ideology.
Defining adoption advocacy and what beliefs an advocate for adoption supports:
ADOPTION
a0dopt (ő-dÄpt2) tr.v. a0dopt0ed, a0dopt0ing, a0dopts.
1. To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.
ADVOCATE
ad0vo0cate.
1. To speak, plead, or argue in favor of.
ADVOCACY
ad0vo0ca0cy (ad2vő-kő-sT) n.
1. The act of pleading or arguing in favor of something, such as a cause,
an idea, or a policy; active support.
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Principle beliefs of Adoption Advocacy
1) Adoption is a way to build a permanent family.
2) Adoption is NOT baby sitting, foster care, or a GUARDIANSHIP or
providing care for someone else's child.
3) Adoptive families are REAL, and adoption is FOREVER.
4) Adoptive parents are parents.
5) Adoptive families are like biological families -- Good and Bad.
6) Adoption is no big deal, adopted children are no more or less lucky
than biological children being raised in loving, intact families.
7) Adoption gives children a chance at a better life.
8) Not all Adoptees want to search for their biological parents.
9) Adoption should not be a last resort, but a timely necessity in the
"best interest of the child".
10) Children deserve a permanent home as early in life as possible.
11) Foster care is systemic child abuse, it should only be temporary,
short-term meaning: ONE YEAR OR LESS!
12) Negative stereotypes and media images stigmatize our adopted children
and damage the integrity of our families, this is descrimination against
adopted persons and needs to be ended.
13) Adoptive parents have the legal right and responsibility to raise
their children to maturity without interference, in the same way as any
biological family.
14) Any party to an adoption should be allowed to maintain confidentiality
if they so desire, including the right to say no to unsolicited contact by
or from another party. Adoptive families should have the right to privacy
and protection under the law.
15) Adoptees should have the right to information about their
biological roots when they are mature enough to deal with it, but they
should be protected by law from premature, unsolicited and potentially
traumatic contact.
Terms of Moderation:
Messages submitted to this newsgroup should be about "adoption advocacy"
and all issues about the family as they relate to adoption, with some civil
and informal unrelated-discussions among regular or new posters to the
newsgroup agreeable, otherwise messages should be mostly on topic and
courteous to it's regular and new posters. No commercial or adoption
advertising of any kind will be acceptable.
Messages that are off topic but of a social nature should be kept to a
minimum and always introduced with the word "Social:" or "Off topic:" in
the subject header. Opinions that favor the adoption advocacy viewpoint
should start out with "Point:", likewise, opinions 'somewhat' (but not
overly) controversial in nature to adoption advocacy should start with the
word "Counterpoint:" in the subject line. These suggestions for posting
are out of courtesy for readership and for their convenience, so they can
have a choice whether or not they are interested in reading, and maximize
their productive use and time online. Other such helpful subject line
introductions, i.e. conference dates, adoption news, internet addresses and
pointers to information and web pages (which should always be from or
about "pro-advocacy" adoption organizations and information) in the subject
line, that alert others of the content of your messages is encouraged.
One copy of all messages will be posted to alt.support.adoption.advocacy
only, after being approved by the moderator at the submission address:
adop...@revealed.net.
Therefore, there will be no cross-posting to this newsgroup, and it is
HIGHLY ADVISED that posters send their message directly via e*mail to the
submission address, adop...@revealed.net, for moderation rather than
posting directly from USENET to the newsgroup. Albeit, UUNET has
acknowledged and will honor the submission address for this newsgroup. By
taking this advice, you save the USENET community valuable time, and you
speed up the time your message will take to reach the newsgroup.
If you change your mind about wanting to post an article after submitting
it, and the article has not been posted yet, you may contact the moderator
at cel...@revealed.net and request a stop on your article, and then hope
you reach me in time. Once posted I can not guarantee it isn't posted on
servers, or added to any archives on the internet, but I can issue a
cancellation from this server at the original authors request. Everything
of course is done as time permits, and I make no guarantees, except that I
will do the best I can to please everyone.
Messages that are not approved will be returned to the sender as far as
possible, with an automatic response as far as possible, or occasionally
noting the reasons the message did not meet with approval and offering
helpful suggestions. Once returned to the sender, the moderator's
decisions are final, but you may resubmit your messages for
reconsideration, or with appropriate or suggested changes made. The
moderator is not responsible for articles lost while being transmitted over
the internet, therefore, it is advised that you make a copy of your article
before submission. Copyrighted material submitted that is in keeping with
fair use provisions of copyright laws is permissible so long as it is
informative, educational and related to adoption.
Readership:
The main purpose for this newsgroup is to educate and disseminate
pro-advocacy adoption information and ideas both to new usenet
participants, regular participants and to the general public. It is
expected due to the privacy issues and concerns of those who advocate in
favor of traditional adoption practices, and support for continued rights
to privacy in adoption, that this newsgroup will have more silent, behind
the scenes readership than visible readership.
An extra effort and commitment of maintaining privacy of readership:
Those who want to maintain privacy but would like to share their views are
encouraged to use pseudonyms, nicknames or pen names. I can possibly and
will as far as possible, at the author's specific request make changes to
the path line of headers, thereby making it difficult for anyone to trace
authors of a message. All private information revealed to the moderator
will be held in the utmost confidence. Mail sent to the moderator at the
address: cel...@revealed.net which is confidential should have the word,
"Private:" in the subject line, to better alert the moderator of your need
for confidentiality.
As far as possible, I aim to encourage participation of all those who may
feel intimidated by the public nature of the internet. Adoption in
particular lends itself to the needs for privacy and discretion.
Direct any comments or questions you may have to the moderator's separate
address at: cel...@revealed.net