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• I am totally with Maureen whose sound bite you played this morning: We got caught up in the "you've GOTTA own a home" frenzy in 2004-05, and bought our first house at what turned out to be the top of the market. Huge mistake. In spite of reasonable income at the time, it was a struggle the whole time to pay everything associated with the house, and it only got worse as we lost income. The house is gone; went through foreclosure and it was a relief, to tell the truth - a letting-go, not a loss. We'll never buy again.
  in Your Take: Homeownership and the American Dream
  Friday June 03, 2011, 03:06 PM
• As a birth mother who was gratefully reunited with my surrendered son 9 years ago, when he was 31 years old, I want to second (third and fourth!) the other comments about a promise of confidentiality. I was not promised any such thing, and I believe that so-called promise, if it existed at all, was really to protect adoptive families from being sought-out by mothers who regretted their decision to give up their child. And, even it that is true, *certainly* once an adoptee is 18 or older, she/he should have *every* right to the original birth certificate. Also, matching registries *don't* work - I registered with at least two, as did my son, including NYS where he was born - neither of us ever heard from any of them. It was only through the advice of an online friend who is an adoptee and the efforts of the woman she put me in touch with that we found each other.
  in Adoptees Fight for Access to Original Birth Certificates
  Monday August 02, 2010, 01:08 PM
• Heh. I like "The Truth is Out There (It's Just Not Very Well Indexed)" - good geek bumper sticker.
  in Oversimplified 'Bumper Sticker Politics'
  Thursday July 22, 2010, 10:07 AM