Anderson is suing lDS Family Services, Utah for nondisclusur of her daughter's death 28 years ago
United States of America (Press Release) September 14, 2007 --
September 14, 2007
OriginsUSA is a national organization dedicated to Family Preservation,justice and education for families separated by adoption.
As such, we are in full support of the efforts of Jayni Anderson, Utah, as she fights to know all of the details of the death of her infant daughter 28 years ago, for the right and to know where the child is buried, as reported in The Salt Lake Tribune, Sept 20, 2007.
OriginsUSA also supports Anderson in changing agency policy and
regulations that prevent sharing the truth of such vital information as the death of child. According to Anderson representatives of the agency, LDS Family Services, told her that her daughter was ??fine? when she inquired.
OriginsUSA is opposed to all secrecy in adoption as detrimental to all of the parties to the adoption. Bernadette Wright, PhD, president of OriginsUSA states: "Secrecy and lies in adoption policy are counter to the best interest of the children being placed and their families, and serve only the interests of those whose livelihoods depend on adoption placements, and those who pay the fees to keep agencies operating in the black."
OriginsUSA is opposed to posthumous adoptions, legal in the state of Utah. The practice is a cruel fraud. Likewise, denying the truth to a mother who has surrendered is an inhumane procedure based on the false belief - and hope - that mothers who surrender walk away and forget, which they do not.
OriginsUSA position is that a mother is a mother forever. Wright says: "No paper changes that fact of life."
It was because Anderson never forgot, and was forever wondering and concerned about her daughter?s welfare, that she kept her contact address updated. It was during one of these visits, when the agency informed her that her daughter had died, allegedly of SIDS, at six months of age. It has yet to be determined if the adoption had taken place and/or was finalized at that time.
Anderson, who is adopted, has fought for adoptee rights in Utah and through her reunion discovered that she is one-half Sioux. Not knowing the fate of her first child and believing in the "goodness" of adoption, she placed two other children, a decision she now regrets. She requested that her two sons be placed together, but they were not, and now says she endures the pain of severe concern for their welfare.
Anderson is planning to sue agency to get all of the records regarding her daughter's death, and wants to see legislation is place so that other mothers will not be denied the truth of their children like this.
The Board of Directors, OriginsUSA
Origins-USA.org
CONTACT: Mirah Riben, PR Chair, OriginsUSA, PR@Origins-USA.org, 732-329-3769
OriginsUSA is a national organization dedicated to Family Preservation,justice and education for families separated by adoption.
As such, we are in full support of the efforts of Jayni Anderson, Utah, as she fights to know all of the details of the death of her infant daughter 28 years ago, for the right and to know where the child is buried, as reported in The Salt Lake Tribune, Sept 20, 2007.
OriginsUSA also supports Anderson in changing agency policy and
regulations that prevent sharing the truth of such vital information as the death of child. According to Anderson representatives of the agency, LDS Family Services, told her that her daughter was ??fine? when she inquired.
OriginsUSA is opposed to all secrecy in adoption as detrimental to all of the parties to the adoption. Bernadette Wright, PhD, president of OriginsUSA states: "Secrecy and lies in adoption policy are counter to the best interest of the children being placed and their families, and serve only the interests of those whose livelihoods depend on adoption placements, and those who pay the fees to keep agencies operating in the black."
OriginsUSA is opposed to posthumous adoptions, legal in the state of Utah. The practice is a cruel fraud. Likewise, denying the truth to a mother who has surrendered is an inhumane procedure based on the false belief - and hope - that mothers who surrender walk away and forget, which they do not.
OriginsUSA position is that a mother is a mother forever. Wright says: "No paper changes that fact of life."
It was because Anderson never forgot, and was forever wondering and concerned about her daughter?s welfare, that she kept her contact address updated. It was during one of these visits, when the agency informed her that her daughter had died, allegedly of SIDS, at six months of age. It has yet to be determined if the adoption had taken place and/or was finalized at that time.
Anderson, who is adopted, has fought for adoptee rights in Utah and through her reunion discovered that she is one-half Sioux. Not knowing the fate of her first child and believing in the "goodness" of adoption, she placed two other children, a decision she now regrets. She requested that her two sons be placed together, but they were not, and now says she endures the pain of severe concern for their welfare.
Anderson is planning to sue agency to get all of the records regarding her daughter's death, and wants to see legislation is place so that other mothers will not be denied the truth of their children like this.
The Board of Directors, OriginsUSA
Origins-USA.org
CONTACT: Mirah Riben, PR Chair, OriginsUSA, PR@Origins-USA.org, 732-329-3769
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