Welcome to another week.
These are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
- Woman forced to give up son for adoption says it ‘never should have happened’ (England)
- ‘We’ve been totally vindicated’: State admits rights of Mother & Baby Home survivors were breached (Ireland)
- Man born in mother and baby home to sue State over redress (Ireland)
- Star Hobson council left children at risk for years (England)
Researching Reform 
A pity they do not talk about forced adoptions going on now in this 21st century !Yes many countries do allow adoptions without parental consent (mostly for babies that have been abandoned or whose mothers cannot be found ).Only the UK in Europe crushes mothers in court cases taking thousands of babies every year for adoption by strangers despite desperate pleas from their mothers to have a chance to keep their new born babies.FORCED ADOPTION is adoption forced on unwilling parents in a court of law and it really should be banned.
One day I am convinced that it will be……………..
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Ian It is astonishing that the media tolerate what is oppression of mothers re: current forced adoptions .. They seem to train their eyes to more fashionable matters and avoid doing the hard work of showing the system of non consensual adoptions is unfair, unjust, and secretive beyond justification ..
It’s bizarre that we call ourselves a democracy if the weakest folk under family stresses cannot be checked and viewed by public scrutiny … Too sad really .. There again I am an Adoptee subjected to elements of secrecy and cultural avoidance of the truths about our traumas … Many of us do suffer trauma inside Adoption … So I have an unfortunate grasp of matters .. I feel like you that finally these matters of so many non consensual current adoptions will become exposed … Lives will be wasted though and never repaired in all of this … That is the truth of it ..
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Natasha – We will all await the way the current awkward paradox of “Forced Adoptions” re: the examination of them at the Human Rights Committee – will unravel compared to the fact we all know the whole “historic” argument is a cover for what is happening right now ..
It will therefore be interesting to see if the HR Committee has the political balls to point directly to matters of “Lessons Learned ?” only to realise they and others have NOT LEARNED ANY unless and until current Forced Adoptions are exposed as a CURRENT reality.. x
Oh what a circus of awful pain this really is ..
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This last article link in the Times mentions a Case going back to 2002. This is how long bad practice has gone in in more recent times to the more historical Cases going back to the early 2000’s.
‘Robbie Moore, the Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley, has already called for a full inquiry into a child sexual exploitation scandal in Bradford. A review focusing on the response of multiple agencies, including children’s services and the police, was published this year. One historic case had included Anna, who was placed in residential care as a teenager in 2002. The following year, aged 15, she said she had married her “boyfriend” in an Islamic ceremony. It appeared there was “collusion” with a social worker who “allegedly attended” the wedding.’
It seems from reading the rest of the article that the very ones trained to safeguard children are not doing so through fear. Is this not a breach of practice or a breach of duty. Then no wonder children are dying and been killed so much, and’ lessons will be learnt’ will no longer work in all reality to re-gain public trust🤔🦋🕊️ Xx
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