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Bastard Nation is a North American adoptee rights organization. It seeks to establish the right of adoptees to access sealed records typical of a closed adoption, a common type of Adoption in the United States. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the...
Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. ...
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Closed Adoption (sometimes called secret adoption) is the process where an infant is adopted by another family, but the record of the natural (birth) parent(s) is kept sealed. ...
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The group has been successful in getting several states in the United States to approve legislation to open sealed records, for example in Oregon by Ballot Measure 58. They have members throughout the United States, Canada and the world. State nickname: Beaver State Official languages None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) Senators Ron Wyden (D) Gordon Smith (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 9th 255,026 km² 2. ...
The following is a partial list of Oregon ballot measures, dating back to 1990. ...
The name is a reference to the fact that most adopted children were born illegitimate, hence are literally bastards. 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). Illegitimacy was a term in common usage for the condition of being born of parents who are not validly married to one another; the legal term is bastardy. ...
Queer Nation was founded in March 1990 in New York City, USA by activists from ACT-UP. The founders were four victims of anti-gay violence. ...
Queer has traditionally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’, but is currently often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ...
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