An online conference hosted by Moses Farrow this weekend and open to the public, is inviting all those affected by or interested in care experiences, to take part in a conversation about how to protect fostered and adopted children from being maltreated and killed by their carers.
While the number of children affected by this kind of violence remains unclear, largely due to a lack of research in this area, cases where children have been abused and killed by their adoptive parents and foster carers are increasingly reported on by media outlets around the world.
A deeply concerning number of fostered children in the UK have reported maltreatment by their foster carers. The latest government figures say that the overall number of child abuse complaints against foster carers rose to 3,010 allegations during 2021 and 2022, an increase of 16% from the year before (2,600 allegations). Of those, 1,965 complaints were made by the children themselves. These numbers are likely to be conservative as we know children are often afraid to speak out for fear of being placed back inside the care system, or angering their carers.
Maltreatment experienced by adoptees is not recorded by governments as a matter of practice, which makes this form of violence much harder to quantify.
The introduction on the EventBrite page says:
“The adoption community is under attack. Today, children are fostered and adopted with the promise of a better life, a second chance at life. Instead they are abused and tortured to death. It’s time we collectively call a state of emergency and come together around this common threat.
First nations around the world have been targeted and removed from their lands. Mass graves of their children have been unearthed. The adoption industry has created a culture in which children are traded as commodities. They are victimized and dehumanized. They are being abused, tortured, and killed.
More and more adopted people are speaking up about these crimes. Yet, this remains a silent killer, the truth is being suppressed. It’s time we come together to protect our children, prevent the murders, and save their lives. Show and speak up at this virtual global town hall.”
The online conference takes place on Saturday, April 13 at at 9am Pacific Time, which is 12pm Eastern Daylight Time, and 5pm British Summer Time.
Anyone wishing to join the conference can do so here.
You can follow Moses’ work on his website here, or connect with Moses on X at @MosesFarrow.
Researching Reform 
Text from a Medium Article I just wrote in part response to this blog article ..
“It’s not true there’s NO figures for Adoptees in the UK, or elsewhere for Adoptees who have been child abused INSIDE Adoption by Adopters. Two UK Adoptees followed this up on Facebook in 2021. Out of 95 UK Adoptees over 40% were child abused (see below)
This abuse was not “dis-aggregated” into types, it was a broad figure across what Adoptee respondents said they experienced.
It was a grassroots survey based on asking those we could reach if they experienced a good or bad Adoption. It was intended to wake people up from the comfortable social and political dream that Adoption is a second better chance. For some that may be true, for others certainly not, and that not due to Birth Family influence — but in the next year 2022, that was tested again and dis-aggregated (see below)
It was once again a grassroots survey test about direct experience using Twitter , Facebook and Tik Tok Adoptees — after all if you really going to check some experience of a so called better care-design like Adoption then you need to ask those who ACTUALLY experienced that care-design…Got that ?
“Trust me I am an Adoptee” should be the basis for that. In the Adoptee community we have a massive problem of not being believed about negative abusive Adoptions and not even studied directly and properly.
That’s a deficit created by Universities and promo obsessed Adopter orgs. Universities by their “ethical” approaches are by default too not re-democratising Adoptee experience of voices…”Bottom up validation matters otherwise we are all waiting for “top-down” ivory towered truth which leaves people disconfirmed because it not happening. So much for open policy and balance.
Everyone keeps away from the raw truths and the raw truths are claiming victims all the time. So much for ethical approaches . We have to be braver to see the truth or leave some Adoptees to suffer far too much .”
https://medium.com/@highcroftrabstovey/2021-uk-adoptee-child-abuse-survey-c90bb431294d
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