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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to know what happened to me from the day I was born to the day I was adopted four months later. And I specifically want to know what experiments, if any, I was subjected to.[/quote]

what makes you think you were subjected to experiments?? how awful.  i certainly hope not.  i have a friend who was adopted around 2 months old and she was in the care of a catholic charity in DC.  she has some photos of herself with a nun. [/quote]

Journalist Gabrielle Glaser published a book this year (American Baby - one of the NYT's Best Books of 2021) that documented some of the really shady stuff that happened/happens in American adoption. In the period that I was adopted there was a lot of concern about ensuring that adoptees were developmentally "normal." Some researchers - legitimate ones - experimented on newborn adoptees to see if it was possible to evaluate us for qualities like intelligence. The state of NY allowed some particularly heinous experiments, including snapping rubber bands at the feet of minutes-old newborns to see how much they cried in response to pain stimulus. Supposedly, the theory was that infants who cried a lot and quickly were likely to be smarter. (!)

I was not adopted in NY (thank God), but I have reason to believe I was evaluated for intelligence and other disabilities. I am lucky to have been born in a state where I am allowed to ask for records. There are some notes in my file about various evaluations, but no specific information about what those evaluations entailed.

I am sorry to tell you that Catholic Charities has a pretty atrocious human rights record when it comes to adoptions and adoptees.[/quote]

Ugh, how awful to hear.  And yeah, I do know that catholicism isn't historically wonderful for kids.  FWIW, my friend was adopted into a family that utilized a fair amount of corporal punishment, so, clearly they weren't vetted all that wonderfully, although corporal punishment among religious families in the 80s was pretty common I'm sure. [/quote]

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