Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC

Adoption Is Not a Solution for Abortion Adoption rates in the U.S. are relatively low and steadily decreasing because of cultural changes, not Roe vs. Wade.

I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

#adoptee

Ethical Storytelling: A Therapist's Perspective on Adoptee Narratives

“Sometimes I worry about adoptees who share their story publicly before they’ve processed its impact. I can hear and feel them trying to keep the trauma at bay, and I worry—for the storyteller and the listener.” #adoptee

This is so insane

Yup! Missed a perfect opportunity to educate the masses

#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy.

son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face,. but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out. Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith.

I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom

NEWS

The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.

In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”

In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.

Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h

What do you mean? I’m not being sarcastic at all.

Ugh

Conservative students are being conditioned to think any mention of policy and social sciences is “woke politics” and we’re pushing our liberal agenda on them. We gotta find a way to address this with them head on

Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.

Trump’s promise of a simpler life and regressive gender norms is unattainable. What happens if his followers ever figure that out?

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

I am beginning to see this at the community college level – – students are accusing me of being political for covering the impact of poverty on families in my child psych class

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

not a landslide

We need to stay focused this is going to be a long four years.

the state & failure of women’s healthcare always reminds me that diagnoses of ‘hysteria’ didn’t cease to exist — esp. for women of other marginalised identities — it just goes by different names, different appearances. but the trivialisation & dismissal of women’s pain still very much exists

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Noooooo

Good luck!

Vaccines do not cause autism.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.

😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."

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And what a nasty irony for #adopted and donor-conceived people who are already barred from access to the truth about their biological parentage, and therefore family health history.

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Adoption Is Not a Family Planning Tool Framing adoption as a family planning tool decenters the needs of adoptees and the rights of birth parents.

Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adoptee

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