Claudia Corrigan D'Arcy

Previously: Veronica Brown and the Indian Child Welfare Act. Though she is now a walking, talking preschooler, the headline read, " Baby Veronica Handed Over to Adoptive Parents." On the night of Monday September 23, 2013, Veronica Brown was removed from the care of her biological father and transferred to the custody of the couple who wanted her.

Claudia Corrigan D'Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame; Life as a Birthmother in Adoption has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding.

My mother looked shocked and said, "I can't raise this baby for you," but I was ready with my reply. "You won't have to," I said. "I'll have this baby and give it up for adoption." Like some magic answer I plucked from the air, adoption was the solution to all the problems of being unmarried, 19 and six months pregnant.

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For a long time, Claudia Corrigan D'Arcy thought of herself as an adoption success story. Pregnant at 18 from an affair with her boss, she denied the pregnancy until her coworkers began to notice.

http://www.musingsofthelame.com/ In early 2007, I was on the Montel Williams show as an expert in adoption reform. It was a pretty fustration experince. If you watch closely, you can see that I end up kicking him. By accident, of course.

In These Times brought together three adoption experts to discuss these issues: Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy, who has been writing on her blog about adoptee rights and adoption industry ethics since 2005; Megan Lindsey, director of public policy and education at the National Council For Adoption; and Liberty Ferda, an adoptee who writes about race and adoption at the website Lost Daughters.

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Guest Post by Claudia Corrigan D'Arcy for Adopt-a-tude This is Adopt-a-tude's second post in a series about the ABC reality show Find My Family, which first aired in the United States this past November. Each episode involves the reunion of an adoptee with his or her birth parents.

For this week's show Rebecca is talking with a birth mom (or "first" mom) and an adoptive mom, each who has a large online presence and two women you might think, at first, would be at odds in the sometimes contentious Online Adoption World.

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When state laws hinder them instead of helping, adopted children are posting pictures, videos, blogs and their birth information online to find their birth parents. They are on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest and pretty much every corner of the World Wide Web.

This January, a 21-year-old Utah woman named Jenessa Simons located her birth mother via Facebook by posting a picture of herself holding her adoption information ("Born November 17, 1991...They named me Whitney"). The photo went viral, with more than 160,000 shares, and Simons received an email from her birth mother just two days later.

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Claudia D'Arcy gave up her son for adoption when he was four days old. Seventeen years later, she decided to track him down. She joined host Nancy Redd on a segment for HuffPost Live to discuss the process she took to find him, and what it was like to reunite.

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In the 1950's, 60's and 70's, being an unwed mother carried a significant stigma in America. It's now called the "baby scoop" era and during this time young women -- usually in their teens -- were either hidden at home, sent to live with distant relatives or quietly dispatched to maternity homes to give birth.