The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
- Push for inquiry into forced adoptions to address ‘dehumanising’ toll on survivors (Australia)
- An ode to my mother: singer-songwriter Pauline Scanlon discusses adoption in her music (Ireland)
- The Heartbreaking Story of One Woman Who Was Forced to Surrender a Baby Before Roe (US)
Researching Reform 
The third link led to a story worth reading, albeit it one with a contrived, annoying headline, “The Heartbreaking Story of One Woman Who Was Forced to Surrender a Baby Before Roe”, about which I would like to comment here, because the article linked to doesn’t permit comments at all.
American, pro-abortion, Roe-moaners who try to shoehorn their fixed idea of reference, the recent and long-overdue overturning of Roe v Wade, into every possible news story or feature (whether it fits or not), remind me of the British Remoaners who used to be employed to write copy to be read on BBC news in the dark days when Teresa May was PM and Labour were demanding a second, “final say” referendum, in which the options were a hard versus a soft Remain, with no actual, literal Leave-Means-Leave option on the ballot paper. Every BBC news story in those days seemed to include one or other of the two propaganda slogans, either “despite Brexit”, or “because of Brexit”. It was a relief that even those who forecast the weather at least didn’t try to insinuate that the sun only shone “despite Brexit”, and that it sometimes rained “because of Brexit”. (They continued to use the weather forcecast to peddle the BBC’s climate change scare story cum guilt trip instead.)
Forced adoption wasn’t a bad thing that first used to happen in the USA because Roe hadn’t been ruled on yet (incorrectly), or one which continued after Roe despite the Roe ruling, or which disappeared eventually because of Roe, or which will now reappear because of the correction, 60 million or so child deaths later, of the former supreme justices’ error in Roe. Good news won’t all henceforth be “despite the overturning of Roe”, and bad news won’t all be “because of the overturning of Roe”, as the Roe-moaners love to suggest to the suggestible.
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Forced adoption (adoption opposed in court by parent(s) is ALWAYS a bad thing.
How can anyone give complete strangers priority over loving parents?
What about brutal criminal parents?? Well they do not go to court to fight for their children;They never go near courts if they can possibly avoid them !
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Of course Adoptees matter by: “experience of Adoption” – never mind the laws and others views .. What matters is experience and whether or not Adoption is not caring but abusive. What then can be done especially if a “Forced Adoption” took place.
Adoption proceeds from an abusive principle though that children can magically (by legal fiction) become someone else’s child as if nature can be transferred by a court deed merged into a contract of care .. That’s what hurts many Adoptees ..
Their primality of connection is severed and damaged .. Some have reasonable Adoptions, a lot do not, but choose to say very little …
In large Facebook groups of Adoptees we see all spectrums but many damaged Adoptees.
The Forced Adoptions (of non consensuality) and even pressured ones of young mothers/parents in stress/troubled can easily give rise to children being hurt. I am an Adoptee and submitted material to the recent JCHR Inquiry showing child abuses inside Adoption ..Quite a per cent of them .
What remains as a thorn in the souls of Adoptees is the lack of Revocation process for adult Adoptees who are perversely thought of as somehow “normalised” but many are damaged enough to want the fictional identity to end ..It’s an artificial construct that does not work for all at all ..
But boyyy do “authorities” want to hang onto magical thinking instead of increasing Guardianshiop Orders which are less severing and do not change legal identity of children as over-sanctified Adoption does
This is what remains as part legacy of the perversity of Forced/ pressured adoptions…
What we as old age “kids” will say finally one day will matter more than legal arguments and playing with children’s minds when we vote with our pens to leave Adoption behind for the perversity of connections and disconnections it was .. Well at least for quite a per cent of us ..
We are the only group of humans on the planet not allowed by law to gain back our identities of birth … Something is very wrong here ..
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“Push for inquiry into forced adoptions to address ‘dehumanising’ toll on survivors (Australia)”
Id like to see this happen in the UK. very doubtful it will. No 10 is too worried about damages claims.
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