FediGarden, to random

Dads.cool and Cooler.mom are servers for people who are bringing up children, including biological, non-biological, foster & adoptive parents:

:Fediverse: https://dads.cool

:Fediverse: https://cooler.mom

Parents of all gender identities are welcome.

The servers run Hometown, which has a server-only visibility option for posts.

For more info, contact the admins at @alex & @sydney

#FeaturedServer #Parents #Parent #Parenting #Family #Families #Children #Kids #Fostering #Adoption

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Things Conservatives Will Protect:

Frozen Embryos
Guns
Walls
Misinformation
Tax Cuts For Billionaires
Racism
Hierarchy
Corporations

Things Conservatives Will Not Protect:

People

BootsChantilly,
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

@cindyyusa If you understand how the incredibly misogynistic, coercive, predominantly Xtian-run, $21 billion /year industry works, you’ll understand that forcing ppl who don’t want a baby to give birth & denying IVF to those who desperately want a baby go hand in hand.

Tangentially, look up how many times Aileen Cannon has adopted. @RickiTarr

"If you build it, they will come"

I think we all can agree that the main thing holding back the growth of kbin and lemmy throughout all of the reddit drama is a lack of accessibility. Kbin and lemmy both capture the spirit of reddit in their style and userbase, but really lack the ease of use that led to millions of people adopting reddit. Looking at the trends,...

coverspulledup_, to chat

Bonjour ici, ça faisait longtemps !

Je suis, depuis un moment, à la recherche d’un #chat (on, de préférence) à adopter à #Toulouse.
J’ai contacté plusieurs associations/refuges mais soit je n’ai pas de réponse, soit il n’y a pas de chat de disponible (ils partent trop vite).

Je tiens vraiment à l’#adoption j’ai aucune envie d’aller en animalerie ou élevage.

Merci d’avance pour la future histoire d’amour 🐱

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

BootsChantilly,
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

@RickiTarr Being told by all of society that starting life losing my mother, father, siblings, extended family, identity, heritage & ancestry was of no consequence & no importance.

ProPublica, to DadBin
@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar

When Foster #Parents Don’t Want to Give Back the Baby

In many states, #adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for #custody of their #children.

#Families #Moms #Dads #Kids #Courts #News #colorado

https://www.propublica.org/article/foster-care-intervention-adoption-colorado?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

MeinHund, to animals German
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SherBeareth, to random
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BootsChantilly, to random
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

My adopters starved me, too. & despite the fact that I was CLEARLY malnourished, no one ever tried to help me. Why not? Because society has been taught to believe adopters are saviors & saints. But abusive adoptive parents are not uncommon. That “better life” trope needs to be yeeted into the sun—when you give up your child to , you’re abandoning them to an utter crapshoot, & if they are eventually neglected, abused, &/or even murdered, it’s unlikely you’ll even know.

BootsChantilly,
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

Because pros (& most of society) like to pretend adoptees are “as if born to” our adopters, there is ZERO oversight after an adoption is finalized. ZERO. If the kid you relinquish isn’t lucky enuff to end up w/ decent ppl—or if the folks to whom you entrusted them turn out to be lying sacks of sht, OH WELL. Sucks to be them. They’ll spend their lives being told by all of society how magnanimous & selfless their abusers are & that they’re lucky & should be grateful.

BootsChantilly, to random
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

I have bad news if you've been thinking about adopting. Looks like you just missed the Black Friday baby sales! Yesterday was your last chance to get $500 off your new dishwasher, OOPS, I meant to say "baby"--your new baby! Guess you'll have to wait until next year.

respectonsasso, to random French

ROOKY, jeune berger créole de 3ans identifié, vacciné et castré,est à la recherche d'une famille adoptive, adorable avec humains et chiens.
Besoin d'espace surtout !!
contact : http://respectons.org et MP

BootsChantilly, to random
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

"Blood is thicker than water."

I've heard that all my life--but somehow that seems to apply only to those who aren't adopted. When it comes to adoptees like me, our hypocritical society's tune spins on a dime, & suddenly, DNA isn't important at all. So I'm going to end with my (admittedly provocative) response to society's dismissal of my need to know who the fck I am.

researchbuzz, to DadBin
@researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host avatar

'The research team... found a link between birth mothers who had experienced stressful childhood events, such as abuse, neglect, violence or poverty, and their children’s behavior problems. This was true even though the children were raised by their adoptive parents and were never directly exposed to the stresses their birth mothers had experienced.'

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/adoption-study-links-child-behavior-issues-mothers-trauma

BootsChantilly, to random
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

I often speak critically about adoption. That means I’m often called angry & bitter. I’ve worked thru a lot in therapy. I’m not bitter, but there’s a lot about adoption that makes me angry. That’s not a negative—nor is challenging the whitewashed industry rhetoric that defines in our society. It is vital. Not for me, but for young adoptees, bc there are so many who’ve been taught that their confusion, grief, anger, & longing is unacceptable. It’s not only acceptable, it’s REASONABLE. +

BootsChantilly,
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social avatar

The $21 billion /yr adoption industry (& far, far, FAR too many entitled adoptive parents) claims exists to benefit adoptees—that we are the focus of adoption. That’s not true.

But it should be. /end

OldAintDead, to movies
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Nimes, to chat French
@Nimes@smilodon.chatslibres.com avatar

LÉO, 1 an, petit prince des caresses, recherche sa famille pour le combler de câlins. Léo adore l’humain et il est très sociable. Il s’entend avec ses congénères.

N'hésitez pas à contacter sa famille d’accueil pour pouvoir le rencontrer, numéro que vous trouverez en cliquant sur le lien : ⤵️
https://www.chatslibres.com/adopter-un-chat/leo-jeune-chat-tabby-et-blanc/

battusphilenor, to random
@battusphilenor@sfba.social avatar

is available for !

, CA
Saturday 1/20/2024
1-4 pm

Www.whiskerstailsandferals.org

Please share!

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Linux, to linux
@Linux@linuxrocks.online avatar

🇩🇪 Germany's Schleswig-Holstein moves 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice & Linux :linux: 📝

...They DITCH Microsoft's Office and Windows.

Public money? Public code! ►https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice

@tdforg

crenquis, to Cats

Latest street kitty we took in (looking for a home in S. California)
Named him Noodles because his favorite maneuver is to roll on his back and act all noodly.
(originally called him Flounder, but he didn't respond to that; seemed to like Noodles better).

Black and white tuxedo cat (back is mostly black and belly, chest, and face are white) rolling/twisting on his back while looking incredibly cute.

MiBaWi, to Hawaii
@MiBaWi@m.ai6yr.org avatar

- 'Empty the Shelters' event

Between May 1 to May 15, adoption fees at all Maui Humane Society adoption locations will be reduced in price. This includes adoption fees of $0 for and six months and older, as well as $50 adoptions for kittens under six months old. The special will be available at the Maui Humane Society shelter, in addition to Petco in Kahului and Cat Cafe Maui at Queen Ka'ahumanu Center.


https://mauinow.com/2024/04/27/maui-humane-society-offering-reduced-adoption-fees-during-empty-the-shelters-event/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2GlTSqy9A0GMivxfZqfJWA9FHM9YQCbFskLiRJDG2ZEj9tkXqE5NFUxes_aem_AbLpz8D-qmJo0Lw00DCRFmnzrrsviUNkeakbPwFOxUeO6EGK48nmCGt-Vn4NIaSstHDxsGH1xVRcMpi-87w_cceF

TarkabarkaHolgy, to random Hungarian
@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social avatar

A friend explained to her 7yo.
The kid's reaction:

"So I don't have to kiss anyone and I can still be a parent?! That's awesome!"

😄

battusphilenor, to random
@battusphilenor@sfba.social avatar

is available for

Saturdays at , CA
1-4 pm

Applications at:
Www.whiskerstailsandferals.org

floating, to Podcast
@floating@babka.social avatar

This interview is a real gut punch.

"I didn't realize until years later, thinking back about that, was I was three years old. I lived with my birth mother, and then I didn't anymore.

And I was a three year old. I was talking to her. I forgot over [00:27:00] a while, over time what I was doing. And in the book I talk about it that way. I forgot what I was doing, but I kept doing it. And in, the way that I forgot my name, I had no idea what my name was and I had to find it."

https://www.adopteeson.com/listen/277

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