A debate on the practice of Forced Adoptions is to be held in the House of Commons, on Thursday, 12th July, 2018. The topic was chosen by the Backbench Business Committee.
The backbench MPs responsible for bringing forward the debate will also call on the government to issue an apology for the practice.
Whilst details of the debate seem to suggest that the discussion will focus only on non recent forced adoption practices – for example, women pressured into handing over their babies for adoption during the 1960s – the exact title of the motion leaves the door open for wider debate, which should and must include modern day practices around forced adoption.
The motion tabled by the cross-party backbench MPs calls for recognition of the “pain and suffering that the practice of forced adoption caused many women from the 1960s onwards”.
We therefore urge everyone with an interest in widening this debate to incorporate the current practices of forced adoption – which include the use of S.20 arrangements to illegally detain children in state care, with a view to putting them up for adoption or within foster placements – to contact the MPs involved and ask them to include modern day aspects of forced adoption as well.
We invite fathers who have lost children through forced adoption to reach out too.
The MP leading this debate is Alison McGovern, the Labour MP for Wirral South. You can contact her on Twitter at @Alison_McGovern, or email her at alison.mcgovern.mp@parliament.uk.
The House of Commons library will be publishing a briefing and may also offer materials for the debate, nearer the time. Anyone interested in being notified when this information becomes available can do so by emailing papers@parliament.uk. You can also access a transcript of the debate, usually around 24 hours after it’s taken place, from the Hansard.
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Interesting development that may lead to the inclusion of Modern Forced Adoption as it most certainly should.
this is a core problem feeding the corruption within LA’s and the Family Courts. the time has come to lift the lid on this inhumane outdated practice that has caused untold suffering of parents and children for a very long time. it must end as soon as possible.
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Much easier to apologise years after the event (like Blair apologising to the US senate for the Brits burning down the White house in 1812!) than to try and get a change in the the law now.!
I doubt if they will say much about forced adoption right now and can only hope that my gloomy forecast is wrong !
I shall in any event write to Alison .
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i have also written to her so lets hope she will listern to us both
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At least this leaves the door open for further discussion/debate about current practices, and may make people who aren’t aware that it still happens in this country today, aware! I will be writing to Alison, too, suggesting that the subject be widened – speaking as one who was adopted and as a father who has lost contact with his only child through the Family Court system, and for no good reason.
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Police paedophile documents found near Hartlepool skip – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-44738313 2 days ago – The notes, containing highly sensitive pages with information identifying people in several cases, were discovered by a Hartlepool dog walker. Cleveland Police said the matter was “clearly unacceptable” and confirmed an investigation was under way. … The papers were found near a skip …
as the police are not allowed to speak out what better then to leave info in the street
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What use is a apology?Can anyone tell me? It does I suppose give those demanding an apology a sense of superiority over those giving it; but also a sort of smug satisfaction for those making the apology as though that somehow evens the score .How often have you heard it said “well I said I was sorry didn’t I ” ?
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Words mean nothing to Victims of the family courts. they need to see prosecutions and compensation for what they were put through which is quite a lot in terms of Human suffering.
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The motion tabled by the cross-party backbench MPs calls for recognition of the “pain and suffering that the practice of forced adoption caused many women from the 1960s onwards”.
We therefore urge everyone with an interest in widening this debate to incorporate the current practices of forced adoption – which include the use of S.20 arrangements to illegally detain children in state care, with a view to putting them up for adoption or within foster placements – to contact the MPs involved and ask them to include modern day aspects of forced adoption as well.
We invite fathers who have lost children through forced adoption to reach out too.
The MP leading this debate is Alison McGovern, the Labour MP for Wirral South. You can contact her on Twitter at @Alison_McGovern, or email her at alison.mcgovern.mp@parliament.uk.
The House of Commons library will be publishing a briefing and may also offer materials for the debate, nearer the time. Anyone interested in being notified when this information becomes available can do so by emailing papers@parliament.uk. You can also access a transcript of the debate, usually around 24 hours after it’s taken place, from the Hansard.
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A new report from the Children’s Commissioner for England estimates that 2.1 million of England’s 11.8 million children – one in six – are living in families with risks so serious that they need some level of help.
Serious risks? My God we had better take 2 million kids into care at once! Noone should ever run any risks in this “health and safety” society ! Up the “Nanny state ” where everyone does exactly as they are told and where any kind of exploration or innovation is banned for good !
Well this does look like a possibility for the future if we sit by and allow it to happen……………………..
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