Welcome to another week.
Simple adoption is a form of adoption used in France, which does not sever family ties between the child and their biological parents.
While the terms of a simple adoption may vary within the countries that implement the policy, in France a child can keep their biological parents’ last name, and retains their inheritance rights.
Under simple adoptions, adopted children effectively have two families and contact is encouraged with both biological and adoptive parents.
The UK currently implements a full adoption policy, which sever a child’s ties with its biological parents and very rarely allows for regular and meaningful post adoption contact. Instances where post-adoption contact do occur, are often referred to as open adoptions.
Our question this week, then, is just this: do you think the UK should remove its full adoption policy and replace it with simple adoptions?
We are running polls on Facebook and Twitter asking the same question, so please do choose one of these platforms and have your say.
If you don’t use Twitter or Facebook, please leave a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as a comment on this post, and feel free to add any further thoughts you like.
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YES,its for the best interests of the kids to know their biological family,children need their identity and this will cause less harm in the future.
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Whilst forced adoption should never happen this is clearly a better option.
People are putting up their issues with social services on Facebeook. A recurring issue appears to be contact being stopped. It if often stated their child no longer wants to see them. Of course its not the child telling the parent but the social worker. The trouble is it seems to be a consistent theme. Too much of a coincidence
We now know a child in care is better off seeing their family so why isn’t this being implemented?.
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You are absolutely correct re contact being stopped and social workers always speaking for the child when it should be face to face or at very least recorded on video to show the parents.
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Simple adoption at least keeps a link between birth parents and adoptive parents even if only via inheritance but at least all contact direct or indirect is not severed unlike the appallingly cruel UK policy of forced full adoptions.
Don’t expect any change soon as cutting ties with children is seen by the “SS” as a just form of punishment for parents who dare to transgress the instructions of social workers and their “hangers on” ! Even more important are the millions of £s profits declared yearly by the fostering and adoption agencies many of whom are owned by ex social workers. NO sudden change must rock that boat !!
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This new post on The transparency project is very interesting.
this writer is very likely being duped by all who work within the court arena.
http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/behind-closed-doors-bbc-radio-4s-legal-drama/
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Having had a very happy childhood after being adopted at birth, I feel torn over this issue. I do know that many forced adoptions in this country cause immeasurable harm to the birth parents and very often to the children. I think I would have been very confused if I’d been ‘forced’ to see my birth parents as my parents in all but one sense were my only parents. I knew from a very early age that I was adopted, and the reasons for it, and grew up in full knowledge of this. I had no ‘inner yearning’ to see my birth family until I was a middle-aged adult. I felt safe and secure as a child and believe that security is very important for children, second only to love.
I stress this is purely my personal view and experience, my brother was also adopted (from a different family) and always carried a chip on his shoulder about it. I have lost all contact with my only daughter through the Family Court system so I also know the pain and loss of a parent. On balance, forced adoption is an abomination (my adoption was forced, but only by my birth parents extreme poverty). My birth mother never really got over it, despite having five more children, whom she vowed to keep whatever the circumstances, and did. But sometimes there are two sides to the story.
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