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Adoption Story part 4
Adopted people
I consider myself lucky to have met my real dad.
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Adopted people
My adopted name is Samuel Charles Morley but my birth name was Phillip Stacey Peck and I want to know the absolute truth about the circumstances of my adoption
Continue readingAdoption is a foreign country (3)
Adopted people
After such deep seated connections are formed how could a new born infant not be traumatised and thrown into sensory confusion when permanently losing its mother after birth?
Continue readingAdoption is a foreign country … a lost home (5)
Adopted people
The myth of the happy adoptive family … where an excess of happiness to make up for the excess of loss in many ways masks an excess of denial to cover the first loss.
Continue readingAdoption is complex
Adopted people
I was adopted in 1987, well after the peak of the Forced Adoption Era. Though, when I hear my birthmother's account, I hear many of the themes outlined in the senate inquiry. Coercion from family, being told that if she loved me she'd give me to a married couple. Her consent was not fully informed.
Continue readingAdoption papers signed 1974. Reunited with my daughter 1991.
Mothers
The truth? I was good enough to be her mother.
Continue readingAdoption without anguish
Adopted people
I have never felt stigmatised by being adopted - It was always just a fact of life. Just like the colour of my hair or eyes.
Continue readingAdoption Story part 5
Adopted people
The only way I can explain adoption is to say that before I ever had the chance to grow, I was transplanted to a place where I wasn’t capable of growing.
Continue readingAdoption is a foreign country (2)
Adopted people
“I’m adopted”, doesn’t open easy conversations it tends to close them.
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Adopted people
Adopted people not only have to live with this loss, they have to find a way to make sense of it, often across the full span of their lives.
Continue readingAdoption is a foreign country … with cruel practices (4)
Adopted people
What is the worth of a country’s social and moral currency when it cannot protect its most vulnerable in their time of need … the right for mothers to keep their natural new born babies, irrespective of whether they are married?
Continue readingAdoption loss, reunion, and beyond
Mothers
My experience of forced adoption was that it was insidious and came in many guises – beware; history has a not so funny way of repeating itself.
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Adopted people
When I was a child, I always had the sense that I was different, that somehow I was not supposed to fit in.
Continue readingAdoptive Mother
Family
I am now close to 80 and live in the ACT where I made a teaching career move a long time ago. I am on my third marriage, to a man I knew in primary school. My first marriage failed partly because of issues with the adoption of a baby boy in 1966.
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