Rudy Owens’ memoir on the American adoption experience
To accompany my memoir and critical study of the American adoption experience, I am providing resources to help fellow adoptees and birth parents, the media, and advocates who support civil rights and equal treatment under the law for all persons, regardless of their status at birth.
I also am providing information that will be useful to researchers, lawmakers, and others who may not understand they ways the U.S. adoption works at the state level. This site is and will remain a trusted and strongly fact-based source of information that is rooted in evidence and unbiased analysis of data and the meaning of that data.
Many parties remain ignorant how current state adoption laws ignore well-documented research concerning the importance for all persons to know their family and medical histories and the research that shows the clear health and population health impacts of adoption and being born outside of marriage.
Topics in this section of my website include:
- Bastard from Detroit
- Being adopted in pictures
- Reporters guide
- Number of adoptees relinquished: 1944-1975
- My birthplace tells the story
- Roots of discrimination against adoptees
- Adoption: A public health concern
- Separating families and adoption
- Another Census will fail to count all U.S. adoptees
- Adoption search questions
Be sure to return to this section of the You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are website often. Topics will be added as new pages and then listed in the drop-down menu under this section. I will add materials as I organize and find time to publish them. Some material will also be added through my newsletter and the blog feature on my website under What’s New.
If you have information that you believe is worth covering on this site, please send me an email via my Contact Rudy page.