Anyone Know the Real Reason the NCFA Came into Being?

Question

NCFA - National Council for Adopters (sorry, Adoption)

I'd be interested to know how many people are aware of how and why it originated

Answer 1

Wow...I guess I shouldn't say I was at Gladney - by my own choice and loved it then, hunh...

Answer 2

The NCFA is comprised of mostly LDS Social Services, Bethany Services and Gladney Adoption Center.  Oh yes they are very powerful.  However they do not advocate for those living in Infant adoption.  They want to keep us very separated.  They love it when we as a group - adoptees, natural parents and adoptive parents argue and fight.  That is why I choose to unite us as whole.  We are all victims to their little game.

Why is it that LDS Social Services violate the rights of natural parents every day?  Why is it that Bethany in the state of Indiana is being shut down.  

This group is solely comprised of adoption agencies and a few wealthy adoptive parents.  If we opened our records, I think we as group would have enough evidence to land their proverbial buttocks in jail for life.  I have seen first hand what their member agencies have done to adoptees, natural parents, and adoptive parents.  

It has become my life's work to call them to the mat and watch them get beat.

Answer 3

Yep, what Phil said.  The NCFA is basically a mouthpiece for certain financially strong agencies, such as Gladney.  These agencies have a history of dishonesty and circumventing the law in their practices.  Hence, they want to keep records closed.  No one would consider dirty agency tactics a good reason to keep them closed, so the NCFA started to basically use the natural mother as an excuse to do so.  The agencies who benefit from closed records heavily finance the NCFA, making it a powerful opponent to adoptee rights.

EDIT:

Facts and evidence are far from bad words to reform advocates.  They are that upon which we rely!  The research done by those who work for reform has been extensive, including going back through legislative hearings through the years that led up to sealing records from the very people who's births they record.  I, personally, do not make my claims lightly or without researching first.  That would be foolish, to say the least, as well as harmful to reform.

I'm glad to see that LC will be reading up on this.

Answer 4

The NCFA does a wonderful job of protecting privacy rights for individuals touched by adoption.  They understand that not eery birthparent or adoptee wants reunion and that many are fine without it.

I have been very thankful for the help the NCFA has given me and i hope they keep up the good work.

I find it hard to believe that finding out a birthparent was poor, young, etc suddenly gives an adoptee a sense of self.  The names on a birth certificate don't make me who i am.  I am me and molded by the values my REAL parents instilled in me...and yes, by REAL, i mean my adoptive parents.

i refuse to be labeled as weak, less than whole, etc and live my life by my adoptee status.

Answer 5

http://musingsofthelame.blogspot.com/200...

heres some evidence for ya LC :)

Answer 6

The National Council For Adoption (NCFA) is a research, education, and advocacy organization whose mission is to promote the well-being of children, birthparents, and adoptive families by advocating for the positive option of adoption. NCFA is an adoption advocate and expert in the halls of power and the courts of public opinion, on behalf of all parties to adoption and its member adoption agencies around the country.

Anyone that says different will need to have some evidence (I know that facts and evidence are bad words to some people here) to back up their claim.

Answer 7

"The Model State Adoption Act [a federal statute proposed in 1978] . . .  [would have opened] the original birth certificate to adult adopted persons, upon a simple request: no court order or intervention would be required. . . .

"The Edna Gladney Home and other private adoption agencies coalesced and scuttled the Model Act.  They formed the National Council for adoption (NCFA), and hired professional anti-adoptee rights lobbyist William Pierce.  Under the cloak of child welfare, Pierce set the current anti-adoptee rights theme.  The distortions, fabrications, and misinformation that are NCFA propaganda are effective.  The editorials and the Time magazine article [opposing open records] are redolent with NCFA influence."