Stemming from a former Australian Prime Minister’s heartfelt apology to Australian women who lost their children in the 50’s and 60’s to forced adoption (all for the crime of being unmarried), a movement in the UK to see our government does the same is now underway.
After hearing Julian Gillard’s now famous apology to the nation for taking babies away from mothers in Australia solely because they were single, Veronica Smith, a retired nurse who also lost her child to forced adoption in the 60’s in Britain decided to set up the MAA, or Movement for an Adoption Apology. There is a movement already in Australia, called the National Apology for Forced Adoptions (which celebrated its two-year anniversary last week), but none at present for women who lost their children at the hands of British forced adoption policy during that period.
For the 500,000 women in Britain who lost their children in this way during a period which spanned almost four decades, Veronica says that an apology would help to make amends for the terrible stigma and trauma these mothers endured. We happen to think it would also pave the way for a greater understanding of the flaws in Britain’s modern-day forced adoption practice, which is carried out today by only one other EU country.
Thank you to Dana for alerting us to this news story.
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Yes, Cameron should apologise! However that should only be the beginning. We like to call ourselves compassionate and say we live in a civilised country but it’s a thin veneer. We treat people who don’t conform to what society thinks is the social norm dreadfully. How anyone can devise a policy so heartless is beyond comprehension. The fact it happened at all was driven by economics not the well being of the child nor the mother or the family or ultimately society as a whole.
There are always those who cannot have children and in their desperation turn a blind eye or maybe they don’t know how forced adoptions are achieved. Historically adoptions were from those who society deemed fallen women but nowadays the kids come predominantly from the care system.
This governments policy on forced adoption should be consigned to the bin! The family courts take children for SAFEGUARDING! How can they hand over children to strangers under the guise of adoption when they don’t know who they are giving them to?
For every nice adopter there may well be another who abuse or traffic kids. Yes they too will have nice manners and a smiley face! They will convince social workers they will love and care for the child. The social worker will pat themselves on their back and celebrate another successful adoption, but they don’t know how it will pan out!
With all the historic evidence of kids previously adopted and subsequently abused glaring at them in their faces they cannot possibly justify forced adoption! By continuing to forcibly adopt children from the care system they are responsible for the psychological trauma caused by the very act of forced adoption let alone any other abuses on top of that! We must hold them accountable!
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It is worth noting that Although forced adoption is prévalent in the USA and Canada, the UK is THE ONLY STATE IN THE WORLD where hundreds of mothers every year flee the country in order to stop their babies and young children being snatched for forced adoption by strangers.What do other countries think of our barbarity? Well https://youtu.be/XLU66WvINSA is the link to a 49 minute video called “Russia today” exposing OUR social services and forced adoption!
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Russia stopped USA adoptions after finding out Russian children were being brutally treated, maimed and even murdered by American adoptive parents!
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An apology is needed for current sins, not just for historic ones. And the best apology is for the Social Services to STOP DOING IT.
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Reblogged this on No Punishment without Crime or Bereavement without Death! and commented:
How about making forced adoptions reversible!!!???…
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Hi Sabine, thanks for your thought. We certainly don’t think twice about reuniting children with parents who have been kidnapped by strangers, even if those strangers took good care of them, so why shouldn’t we consider reversing adoptions where appropriate?
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Russia stopped USA adoptions after finding out Russian children were being brutally treated, maimed and even murdered by American adoptive parents!
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Reblogged this on The Real Mommies and Daddies of the Real America and Our Children Who Want to Come Home and commented:
Hopefully, US follows suit.
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