September 17th, 2007 is to be a day of reckoning for the millions of adoptees and birth parents and kin in Ontario, Canada whom have no access to the identifying information of their own next of kin. Since 1927, adoption records had been sealed and adoptees and birth parents unable to at a legal age for a child be enabled to view personal information such as the identities of family members, original birth certificates including the names of both birth parents and the child’s name and the most important aspect; a transparency to the access to information for both parents and children involved in the adoption process.
A social stigma which causes this rift of transparent information for both parties disallows the human right to personal information. Society’s stigma of the unwed pregnancy clearly displaces individuals, makes them strangers to their own kin, and segregates individuals in its attempt to create social approval for the individuals involved.
On September 17, 2007, fifty years after this decree made law, finally access to important information for the adopted children and their families will be rightfully returned. Adoptees and birth parents will have access to their own personal history through sealed government documents including original birth certificates, identifying information, legal original birth names and all of the documentation available pertaining to the adoption. It’s a long time coming and although halfway there, and a great victory for the adoption community, there is still a lot more work to be done to eradicate the silence and secrecy of adoption.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/
The 11th Hour is a documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo Dicaprio, and will be released in most North American cities Aug 24, 2007

So what is it that prevents mentor / protégée relationships?
Narcissism.
The idea that it’s all about that reflection in the mirror. And teams of yes men paid to agree and endure.

G.H. Pollock observed ‘The malignant narcissist is presented as pathologically grandiose, lacking in conscience and behavioral regulation with characteristic demonstrations of joyful cruelty and sadism.’
Tom Cruise has talked about his abusive father, James Dean’s father was unloving and rejected him and well, let’s not even get into Lindsay Lohan’s parentage. Here’s more on narcissism.
‘…an infantile, defensive personality structure in response to abuse and trauma, usually developing in early childhood or early adolescence. They suggest that narcissistic personality disorder may be a maladaptive defense of the abused child's or adolescent's emotional splitting, resultant cognitive distortions, and negative/hostile worldview.’

I’m just sayin’.

This book
WORLD CHANGING: A USERS GUIDE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY [ABRAMS]
Edited by Alex Steffen
It is an excellent book for the ACTIVIST, the INTELLECTUAL, the STUDENT, the TEACHER, the PARENT, anyone who is dedicated to making positive social change.

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