A series examining adoption and its history through the eyes of five adoptees has been published by Prism, an online news outlet which amplifies the lived experiences of people affected by injustice.
The adult adoptee spearheading this series is New-York based writer Tiffany HyeonBrooks, who went to Korea in search of information about her birth mother.
HyeonBrooks, along with other adoptees, want to see a disruption to the narrative that adoption is a win-win for everyone involved, which they say, “positions adoptive parents as heroes who are fulfilling their reproductive destinies and adoptees as silent and grateful recipients of a new family.”
She has teamed up with Collective Power and other adoptees featured in the Prism series to establish adoptee-centered spaces for young people in the reproductive justice movement.
This article, by Prism’s editor-at-large, Tina Vasquez, is an interview with HyeonBrooks and very much worth reading.
You can access the article here.
We need more adoptees to speak out like this and expose the false illusion that adoption is the best option when in many cases its not. Michael Gove is a big advocate for increasing adoptions and speeding up the process. this man an adoptee himself live in Cuckoo land. This big money making racket needs to stop but the big issue is How.
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According to the 1959 Declaration On the Rights of the Child, Principle 6, every child has the *right* to be raised by both his or her parents “where possible”. A child of “tender years” shouldn’t even be *separated* from his or her mother, except in “exceptional circumstances”.
Unless this is literally *impossible*, or there are “exceptional circumstances”, as the case may be, every child should have a resident natural mother with day-to-day care of the child, until he or she is no longer of tender years, and at all times access to his own, natural father, and his own, natural mother, both parents having parental responsibility and both playing roles in the child’s upbringing. Any argument that the word “parents” refers to whoever happens to be raising a child, rather than his or her progenitors, renders principle 6 a tautology, which merely states that a child has the right to be raised by whoever happens to be raising that child. That would make Principle 6 a nullity.
“Impossible” and “exceptional circumstances” are very high hurdles that the courts should have to jump, before considering dismembering a natural, nuclear family in which both natural parents are still alive.
In contrast, the bests interests of many a child (the Children Act test) might be better served by his being given to others than his parents to raise, even though it wouldn’t be impossible for his parents to raise him (perhaps less well than the substitutes the court favours. This hardly amounts to an “exceptional circumstance”. I’m sure we’ve all known parents whose unfitness evoked in a pity for the children concerned.
Put simply, the Children Act fails to implement the Declaration’s Principle 6. It substitutes a lower hurdle from the hurdles that Principle 6 says should have to be jumped, to justify any state interference at all in the natural family.
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All I ask for in the UK is one simple piece of legislation .
REPEAL THE CHILDREN ACT 1989 !
That would have the following results :-
1) Abolition of forced adoption (adoptions contested by parent(s) )
2)No more care orders made on children merely considered “likely”to suffer significant harm even though no harm has actually been suffered.
3) Freedom for parents to protest publicly if their children were taken into care (identifying themselves and their babies or young children without threats of jail !)
4)Parents would have the right to appoint a friend or relative to represent them in court and that person would have the same right of audience as a solicitor.
All those 4 points were valid before 1989 and should in the name of human rights,free speech and undisturbed family life be valid again
REPEAL THE CHILDREN ACT !!!!!
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I agree it would be a monumental step forward for the human rights of parents and children but unfortunately it wont help the thousands of victims who have already been violated and had their mental health destroyed by these subhuman creatures operating in the So-called “Best interests of the child”.
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102,000 children…………….
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Looked after children: statistics briefing
Publication date March 2021
How many children are in care?
In 2018/19, there were approximately 102,000 looked after children in the UK. The total number of looked after children in the UK has increased every year since 2010. In the last five years the population of looked after children in the UK has increased by 10%. However, it is important to note that this UK-wide trend is not reflected in all four nations.
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