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A life On Loan
Adopted people
I was 47 when I transitioned genders to live authentically as me Roz. I gained great peace from the alignment of my sex and gender and I’ve found there’s so much more to me than the shell of a man I’d been moulded into and tried so hard to be. I've also developed a love of learning ballet and other dance
Continue readingA voice from the grave
Adopted people
Part of my mother Aileen’s diary was given to me.
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Advocacy groups
Guardianship is the only option where children cannot live with their parents because it is based on truth and birth details, including parents’ names and genetic history, are not falsified.
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Mothers
There have been enormous changes in attitudes since 1970 and there is now much more acceptance of single parent families.
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Adopted people
My step-father was more than just a dad, he was a friend. We both shared a similar experience and this created a bond which has lasted my entire life - at least I had the spirit of the father in my life and for that I'm grateful.
Continue readingAdoption Destroyed My Life
Mothers
In October 1968, my son was born at the Brisbane Royal Women’s Hospital at 1.15pm weighing 7lb11oz. I was tied to my bed and held down by nurses during delivery.
Continue readingAdoption Story part 2
Adopted people
The day I turned eighteen, I went to the phone box at university and began making enquiries about how to find my real mother.
Continue readingA regional initiative using DNA to find answers about original family and identity
Advocacy groups
The purpose of Within These Walls is to encourage, enhance and nurture the process of uniting the parents and children who have been touched by adoption
Continue readingADOPTION LOSS IS A GRIEF LIKE NO OTHER
Mothers
" NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF SOMEONE MOTIVATED BY ADVERSITY" The people who did this to us in their arrogance and ignorance, never realised we would hold them to account one day and that there would be a National Apology so that they could hold their heads in shame and the tables would be turned.
Continue readingAbandoned
Adopted people
1950 and a young Victorian Federal MP has heard of an American movie, 'Abandoned', that will be more educational than entertaining.
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Adopted people
Forced adoptions must never be allowed in the future. This applies whether people are adopting from within Australia, or they are adopting a child from overseas. I have serious concerns about 'international' and 'intra-national' adoptions as these further remove children from their past.
Continue readingAdopting the Facts
Adopted people
Adoption demands gratefulness. Inner peace-impossible! Health problems: autoimmune, inflammation, allergies, asthma. It affects childhood, parenting & grieving. Two families-yet part of none. Life begins with everyone wanting you, yet nobody knows me, wants to know me or sees me as family. It's lonely.
Continue readingAdoption Loss and Reunion
Mothers
The impacts of adoption loss are lifelong and the associated losses continue beyond reunion. Adoption separation brings pain and grief that is difficult to resolve even with the best counselling and support. An ideal society would ensure that no parent/child relationship would endure such a separation.
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