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BABY TRAFFIC PROBE IS ON part 1
Adopted people
A page 3 story in Melbourne’s, 30 March 1950, Argus newspaper reports that the Labor MP has announced that the illegal practice of charging for adoption was widespread in Australia’s capitals.
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Adopted people
My mother was not surprisingly somewhat shocked to receive a letter from her baby who had died more than 50 years previously.
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Fathers
Whilst a public apology is important in that it validates individual experiences collectively, an individual, through taking action, can promote his or her recovery from the wounds of adoption separation.
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Adopted people
The amendment finally introduced in 1954 was a major change in that a person who needed to consent to the adoption could revoke the consent within 30 days of giving such consent.
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Advocacy groups
I think that this is a reprehensible comment but strong evidence added to other strong evidence, of the unethical and illegal actions of the medical profession.
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Adopted people, Mothers
Any information, particularly medical history would be helpful
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Mothers
As a young 17 year old, pregnant with my first child, I was manipulated by the authorities and treated as sub human with no rights and given no information about any possible assistance that existed in 1975. I was pressured into adopting my child out due to lack of informationn and lies from authorities.
Continue readingBecoming a mother taught me just what had been lost through adoption.
Adopted people
Already, I had learned to be alone, in this house full of kind, anxious strangers who wanted to love me but to whom I was an unsolvable mystery with an invisible, mum-shaped space in my heart.
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Adopted people
Being adopted in 1952, I find the 50’s of particular interest. Archival records indicate that the Secretary of Victoria’s Child Welfare Department was preparing a memorandum to combat baby trafficking at that time.
Continue readingBeing separated from Stephen affected every single aspect of my life.
Mothers
I would never have chosen to have had this tremendous loss experience, if I could have avoided it, but it is now a part of me and has given me empathy with others and fortitude to face challenges in life and not go under.
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Workers
In 1968 I was a young nurse. About two years ago I realised what had actually happened and put it in context.
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Fathers
In some relationships the partner of the mother or father whose child was earlier separated from them by adoption feels threatened by the past event and its continuing impact. The absence of understanding by the partner may affect all members of the family of origin.
Continue readingCases part 1
Adopted people
Two high profile court cases in 1955 brought adoption to the national public interest – in one the adopting couple retained the child and in the other, the natural mother.
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