Useless Products You Never Knew You Needed By Gregory D. Luce on February 16, 2020 — 1 min read Part One of our endless series of products that are so nonfunctional and expensive as to be practically and entirely useless. More
Things Are Gonna Change By Gregory D. Luce on January 23, 2020 — 3 mins read The DC Court of Appeals holds that birthparents have "no absolute right of privacy" in relation to releasing OBCs or court adoption records to adoptees. More
When the Feds Did Adoptions By Gregory D. Luce on November 10, 2017 — 12 mins read I have not yet heard about my long-running fight for my own original birth certificate and records. I expect to get something from the court soon, and I check every day right after I hear the typical clunk of envelopes and catalogs when they land at the bottom of our mail slot. During my wait... More
Do You Have Any Supporting Documents? By Gregory D. Luce on March 14, 2017 — 5 mins read The irony of such a question is not lost on any adoptee who has thought about what relationships mean while also being forced to prove them. More
The Missing ** of Adoptee Rights By Gregory D. Luce on February 7, 2017 — 5 mins read Truth and accuracy must be acknowledged at all times in adoptee rights legislation. It's a fundamental expectation. More
Parenthood Is Just a Swipe Away? By Gregory D. Luce on January 19, 2017 — 3 mins read Adoptly, the Tinder for adoption, is a hoax. But if it isn't, it obviously should be. More
Petitioning the D.C. Court for Your Adoption Records By Gregory D. Luce on January 16, 2017 — 11 mins read This goes out to D.C. adoptees who are considering whether or not to petition the court to release your sealed adoption records. More
The More Things Kinda Be the Same By Gregory D. Luce on January 13, 2017 — 18 mins read In 1979, Judge Joyce Hens Green issued a landmark D.C. opinion that gave an adult adoptee the identities of her birth parents. It's time, again. More
The Flawed Rhetoric of a Sandy Musser Pardon By Gregory D. Luce on January 10, 2017 — 9 mins read It's galling to me that Sandra Musser is held up by some as heroic, the equivalent of a Rosa Parks, a Susan B. Anthony, or a Martin Luther King, Jr. More
Why I Write Letters to People Who Usually Don’t Respond By Gregory D. Luce on September 22, 2016 — 8 mins read It's really about wonder. And about the secrets surrounding a mother, her child, and the relinquishment and adoption that followed More
