Lynn Grubb

The resident baker made this ho-ho cake for my birthday-chocolate sponge cake with cream, topped with chocolate ganache Today is my birthday.  I no longer feel angst about it as I have in years past, due to the questions surrounding my birth and adoption.  All that is water under the bridge.  Today is just a day that I happen to be born on.  A day to eat cake with the family I love. I have been pondering this:  “Should I archive my blog?”  I used to be so passionate about writing about adoption, but honestly, for now, I have run out of things to say on the topic. This appears to be a crossroad.   Should I scrap the blog or just change the direction of the blog?   Is blogging even a thing anymore? I do have one post on Medium.  Pondering moving my writing over to that platform. Also considered Substack or Threads.   I have enjoyed doing the  podcast  but that seems to have run its course too since I am no lon...

 Ande Stanley of The Adoption Files and I discuss our deceased biological fathers and how we would love to learn more about them.   If you happen to know one of our fathers, please email Lynn at theadoptedgenealogist@gmail.com.

Photo credit:   Adoptees United, Inc. By Lynn Grubb, President, Adoptee Rights Coalition California born-and-adopted people have been waiting a long time for unrestricted access to their original birth certificates.  Ever since 2019, when New York restored unrestricted access to adoptees , ending 83 years of inequality, Adoptionland has been holding it’s breath that California would follow suit. California’s current laws are some of the most restrictive in the country and endorse shame and secrecy from a bygone era. With  95 % of adoptions having some form of openness , California adoptees rightfully expect to be treated as equal citizens. Under current law, the only way to obtain an adopted person’s original birth certificate (OBC) is to petition a judge for a court order after proving good cause. It was a happy day when on February 16, 2024, California Senate Bill 1274 was introduced by Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman , Chair of the Senate Health Committee. Sen. E...

  “Caught in the Middle” By Julie Ryan McGue The needle on my inner compass leans towards positive. So, when I consider my adoption, I tease out two things for which I can be grateful. In the Baby Scoop Era during which I was adopted, the firm policy at Catholic Charities was to place multiples in the same adoptive family. I can’t imagine advancing through life without my identical twin sister as a collaborator, confidante, and co-conspirator. And I’m glad I waited until I became a middle-aged woman with scores of lived experiences before tackling adoption search and reunion. Adopted together as infants, we seemed always to have known about our adoption. Ours was a closed adoption, so our adoptive parents were given no information about our first family. Two years later, our parents adopted a little boy, and then as so often happens, my mother’s infertility issues abated. By the time we became teenagers, my twin and I were the oldest of six, a blended family of three adoptees and t...

*Adoptee Tik Tok *Legislative Summit 2023 in Indianapolis * Concerned United Birth Parents retreat 2023 *Celia Center adoption conference Nov 10, 11 2023 *Adoptee Rights 101 *Real ID complications (and passport update!) *Adoptee Remembrance Day- 11/30/23 *National Adoption Awareness Month  Show Notes:  NAAP Adoption Happy Hour:  https://naapunited.org/adoption-happy-hour  Preorder the book: "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood."  https://www.amazon.com/Relinquished-Politics-Adoption-Privilege-Motherhood/dp/1250286778/ref=sr_1_1crid=2A50CHXAVR2JZ&keywords=relinquished%3A+The+politics+of+adoption&qid=1699013928&s=books&sprefix=relinquished+the+politics+of+adoption%2Cstripbooks%2C74&sr=1-1  Celia Center adoption conference:  https://celia-center-adoption-constellation.mn.co/plans/339536?bundle_token=9059baf90d541a7b894e633227303955&utm_source=manual%20noopener  Real ID ...

I was honored to attend the Legislative Summit in August of 2023 and wrote about it at the  Adoptee Rights Coalition website .