This blog might begin to show signs of neglect for a while, as I’ve just taken on a new pro blog at Adoption.com covering news from the adoption world.
This came about as a direct result of the slur campaign Mirah Riben and cohorts conducted in reaction to my post shredding a piece of trash she tried to pass off as ‘information’ that started out here, then was moved … by popular demand … to my International Adoption Blog.
By coordinating efforts within the ranks of the anti-adoption league, conducting a full-scale attack on my job and integrity and pulling out all the stops … including the one that would have masquerading as your own biggest fan seem like a really sleazy and desperate move, and understanding that such action is the very definition of ‘fraud’ … they managed to propel me ahead in my work and gain for me a level of respect it would have taken longer to reach without their help.
Finally seen as the scrapper I am, a new category of blog was created as a platform for not only the copious amounts of adoption-related news I glean daily as a matter of course, but also for my views and opinions.
Now, if they start paying me what I’m worth I’ll have found my dream job!
Sandra dear,
why didn’t you tell me you were Tom Hanks’s sister?!?!?! Good god these people are figgnin f…… idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
L
(read: under “Fraud” link)
I just today found this blog and it looks like I’ll be staying a while! lol
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I don’t understand these extreme anti-adoption people like Riben. Yes, some adoptive parents are abusive, but do you know how many bio parents are abusive? I just found her blog (and found out about who she was) just today. She is abrasive and shrill and she makes gross generalizations about adoption.
I do agree with her that the profit needs to be taken out of the adoption industry, however.
She is far from alone in the adoption community when it comes to seeing the need for reform, no matter how often she claims to be a voice crying in the wilderness …
I am the adoptive Mom of three. Two are adopted as my former foster children and one is adopted from and orphanage in Haiti. I have been keeping up on Mirah Riben and her blog just to get an idea of the other side of adoption. I think that she blames herself for her duaghters death. The daughter that she gave up for adoption committed suicide and Mirah seems to think that she did this because she was adopted. I have to agree that she far too anto-adoption and I have told her so. Of course she attacked me verbally for this. She is taking this too far and making herslef look very bad adn I’m not the only ont who thinks so.
Mirah has problems. That is clear. And she doesn’t take well to criticism, even when it’s about her punctuation.
I have read Mirah’s blog (one offensive word after another), and was actually Googling for more information about her when I came upon this entry in yours as one of the results. She even attacks infertile women, basically blaming them for their infertility, and even goes so far as to say she shouldn’t have to pay for their infertility coverage or procedures. She’s an absolute b-word. Hateful, spiteful to the core, to everyone (EVERYONE) who disagrees with anything she says.
Hats off to you, Sandra, for going against this vile woman and doing your best to expose her for what she is – a bitter spiteful hag.
I agree about the need for reform in adoption practices, but I feel she does more harm than good with her “zero-sum game” approach. She outright distorts cases in the media for her own purposes, then becomes vile, nasty and personal toward anyone who dares to question anything she asserts My heart truly goes out to her for her personal loss, but I think the adoption reform community would be more effective without her “efforts” than with them.
I have to wonder if her mind is going slighly. She gets adoption cases mixed up with each other and even the people involved. She then publishes it and her loyal followers will gently correct hrr. I also have noticed that she will go almost a month withput publishing anything on her blog.
Mirah bases her opinions and accusations on assumptions, innuendo, and her own personal bigotries. I know thru experience she has very poor cognitive and reading comprehension skills. In words and actions she is a cretin.
I am the latest fodder for Ms. Riben. She tried to tangle with me on a Facebook Adoption Reunion Stories page. I am a happy adoptee. I personally think Ms. Riben’s daughter killed herself over Ms. Riben…and her strident attitude. I have a great relationship with my “bio” family…a word we like and she abhors. To me she represents the worst kind of “journalism”…she follows a story only as it applies to her pre-decided opinion…and ignores all evidence that his contrary to her mindset. I also found her to be a cretin when responding in a live forum…so she must rely on a decent editor.
Trying to have a rational conversation with the Riben is like sticking thumbtacks in your eyes … painful, pointless and the opposite of illuminating. She’s an idiot.
Good luck!
A friend of mine from the China adoption community posted on YouTube a video of a talk about adoption that her college-student daughter, one of the earlier China adoptees, had given. She was justifiably proud of her daughter. She did a wonderful job. Well … the first commenter out of the box was none other than Mirah, hawking her book and telling the kid that the talk was nice, but she didn’t know the “whole truth” about her background. Totally ignorant, of course — 18 years ago when this kid was adopted, China didn’t have a trafficking problem. Instead, they had a “dying rooms” problem. And the video wasn’t a sappy parent-produced self-congratulating paean to the glories of IA. It was one young woman’s commentary about her life, her experience. And Mirah had to trash it anyway.
Mirah is a one-note song … tedious and limited in scope. The good thing is, the more she yammers, the less attention thinking people give her. One day she will go away.
Typical of her.
Mirah is a raving lunatic.
Whats up with Mirah? She hasn’t posted anything on her blog in two months. did she die or something?
I have no idea.
She’s still on Facebook…and posting. :o(
Zombie Mirah?
Yep. (I only WISH she was a zombie!)
Any mention of wanting to it brains? In her case that’s the only way she’ll have any.
Maybe that’s what happened? A zombie got to her?
Many, many years ago, but went away hungry.
Well there must be something going on. She’s too angry to be silent this long. Her last post was Feb 11th. She has had to stick her foot in her mouth a few times about the crap that she posts. Maybe someone came down on her hard and she might think that it’s time to back off for a while.