Comments on: Kudos to “Cold Case”! http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/title-187 A blog for and about parents who have placed a child for adoption. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:23:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Adoptee http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/title-187/comment-page-1#comment-2795 Adoptee Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:16:14 +0000 http://birth-first.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/03/06/title-187#comment-2795 A different point of view from an adoptee who is also an adoptive mother: to me, the Cold Case episode was a grotesque attack on the very practice of adoption (a storyline that includes a drunken doctor, cruel nuns, babyselling, plus leaving mothers to "labor in the dark for 18 hours" -- at what time of year does it stay dark in Philadelphia for 18 hours? Give me a break!). No one minimizes the pain of birthmothers, but the Cold Case episode was a caricature of adoption. It was pure propaganda. A different point of view from an adoptee who is also an adoptive mother: to me, the Cold Case episode was a grotesque attack on the very practice of adoption (a storyline that includes a drunken doctor, cruel nuns, babyselling, plus leaving mothers to “labor in the dark for 18 hours” — at what time of year does it stay dark in Philadelphia for 18 hours? Give me a break!). No one minimizes the pain of birthmothers, but the Cold Case episode was a caricature of adoption. It was pure propaganda.

]]> By: Joy D http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/title-187/comment-page-1#comment-2794 Joy D Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:37:39 +0000 http://birth-first.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/03/06/title-187#comment-2794 Thank you for posting this, Jan. As you know, I, too, enjoy Cold Case and was so glad the writer got this right. Whatever helps to let people know the truth deserves our kudos! Thank you for posting this, Jan. As you know, I, too, enjoy Cold Case and was so glad the writer got this right. Whatever helps to let people know the truth deserves our kudos!

]]> By: Jenna Hatfield http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/title-187/comment-page-1#comment-2793 Jenna Hatfield Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:44:22 +0000 http://birth-first.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/03/06/title-187#comment-2793 Thanks for sharing this, Jan. I didn't watch (don't watch the show) but am pleased to hear that someone, somewhere is "getting it." Thanks for sharing this, Jan. I didn’t watch (don’t watch the show) but am pleased to hear that someone, somewhere is “getting it.”

]]> By: crazylittlek http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/title-187/comment-page-1#comment-2792 crazylittlek Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:58:24 +0000 http://birth-first.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/03/06/title-187#comment-2792 Every Catholic Baby Boomer I've ever met was traumatized by nuns. Was it part of a broader educational philosophy at the time? <br /> <br /> (I went to Georgetown for law school, but Father Drinan made sure not to prosteltyze. My classmates said that the liberal philosophy was pretty much limited to the Jesuits, but I don't know enough about Catholic theology to know if that's true.) Every Catholic Baby Boomer I’ve ever met was traumatized by nuns. Was it part of a broader educational philosophy at the time?

(I went to Georgetown for law school, but Father Drinan made sure not to prosteltyze. My classmates said that the liberal philosophy was pretty much limited to the Jesuits, but I don’t know enough about Catholic theology to know if that’s true.)

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