There's celebrating in Maine this weekend as access to original birth certificates becomes law in January, 2009 after a three-year effort by OBC for ME (Original Birth Certificates for Maine).

Maine will be the eighth state to give adoptees access to the information.

Birth mothers are the focus of this article from Minneapolis.

With stories of reunions and lifetimes of shame and sorrow, this is another look at the girls who went away, complete with a quote from Ann Fessler.

Blocking out pain is a practice most of us are familiar with, but apparently research has confirmed the actual mechanics of how this works while trying to find ways to deal with post-traumatic stress and other issues that arise from suppressing emotionally troubling memories.

There is even talk of a drug that targets specific areas in the brains to boost the ability to forget.

And while we're looking at bad memories, this report on men's anger takes a look at 'intermittent explosive disorder" or EID, a condition a Harvard study reveals is far more common that anyone believed.

Suggesting that almost one in ten American men "routinely display wildly disproportionate aggression, and are so angry that they're likely to damage property, or threaten or injure others", but not everyone agrees.

"Everyone has bad days," says William Narrow, M.D., the associate director of the division of research at the American Psychiatric Association (APA). "It's difficult for me to believe that 9.3 percent of the male population in America would destroy property or physically assault another person because of their anger."

Hmmmmmmm. I have no doubt that there are some people who have no trouble at all believing that. Ever been to a kids' soccer game? Some of those parents are scary.

Following on reports of Morressey trashing Madonna by making horrid comments involving her child and me having little idea who the heck he is, here's another lot of people I've never heard of sloshing over into the adoption-related world.

Something about a celebrity saga ... now apparently in book form ... that includes a tale of someone being the bio dad of a girl named Daisy, DNA tests, correct identification of paternity, and some 'incredibly vile' behavior.

Once again ... Who are these people?