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Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen Sisson
There is a lot of debate that centers around women who relinquish their children. We talk about who they might be and why they might be making the decisions they are, often without any insight into…
adoptionuncovered.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🧵 In case you missed this thread of #adoption history, it has a really powerful letter by Bay Area #firstmother Sally Brown (1927-2022) that she wrote to a rabbi who had opined that there was no need for adopted people to have access to our birth information. It's 🔥 and was published back in 1986. 🥚
🥚 🧵 Gone but not forgotten.
In the 1980s I met activist adoptees and birthmothers in the SF Bay Area. Many have since died, including Sally Brown, at age 94 in 2022.
Her obituary (which I just found) says
"Sally was best known for her outspokenness...+
1/4
www.independentnews.com/obituaries/s...
In the 1980s I met activist adoptees and birthmothers in the SF Bay Area. Many have since died, including Sally Brown, at age 94 in 2022.
Her obituary (which I just found) says
"Sally was best known for her outspokenness...+
1/4
www.independentnews.com/obituaries/s...
Sally Brown
Sally Brown, a beloved resident of Livermore, died on Aug. 31, 2022 at the age of 94.
www.independentnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🧵 In case you missed this thread of #adoption history, it has a really powerful letter by Bay Area #firstmother Sally Brown (1927-2022) that she wrote to a rabbi who had opined that there was no need for adopted people to have access to our birth information. It's 🔥 and was published back in 1986. 🥚
As a firstmother in an open adoption:
The agency touted it as a “win win win”. “Keep in touch with your baby!” their ad in the yellow pages sang. “Adoption - the loving option”.
Openness is not legally binding.
The grief & guilt nearly killed me.
The agency touted it as a “win win win”. “Keep in touch with your baby!” their ad in the yellow pages sang. “Adoption - the loving option”.
Openness is not legally binding.
The grief & guilt nearly killed me.
Many birth mothers who choose open adoption hope to maintain a relationship with their child. But when contact agreements are breached, @nicolechung.bsky.social reports, they sometimes have little recourse.
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
bit.ly
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
As a firstmother in an open adoption:
The agency touted it as a “win win win”. “Keep in touch with your baby!” their ad in the yellow pages sang. “Adoption - the loving option”.
Openness is not legally binding.
The grief & guilt nearly killed me.
The agency touted it as a “win win win”. “Keep in touch with your baby!” their ad in the yellow pages sang. “Adoption - the loving option”.
Openness is not legally binding.
The grief & guilt nearly killed me.
Too many mothers relinquished with the promise of a better life for their child only to find out years later they were lied to by those people making that promise and their child may not have had a good life after all.
#adoptiontrauma #coercion #birthmother #firstmother #lies
#adoptiontrauma #coercion #birthmother #firstmother #lies
July 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Too many mothers relinquished with the promise of a better life for their child only to find out years later they were lied to by those people making that promise and their child may not have had a good life after all.
#adoptiontrauma #coercion #birthmother #firstmother #lies
#adoptiontrauma #coercion #birthmother #firstmother #lies
There's a war coming but it will be right here
a revolution ,rebellion or a civil war
Praying that is not the case but if it comes I will stand for the Constitution ,for this ,the FIRSTmother fucking Democratic Republic acknowledged on the face of this Earth that inspired others toward democracy.
a revolution ,rebellion or a civil war
Praying that is not the case but if it comes I will stand for the Constitution ,for this ,the FIRSTmother fucking Democratic Republic acknowledged on the face of this Earth that inspired others toward democracy.
March 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
There's a war coming but it will be right here
a revolution ,rebellion or a civil war
Praying that is not the case but if it comes I will stand for the Constitution ,for this ,the FIRSTmother fucking Democratic Republic acknowledged on the face of this Earth that inspired others toward democracy.
a revolution ,rebellion or a civil war
Praying that is not the case but if it comes I will stand for the Constitution ,for this ,the FIRSTmother fucking Democratic Republic acknowledged on the face of this Earth that inspired others toward democracy.