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Images from Bethesda Mothers Home
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Images from Bethesda Mothers Home 1954, baby on the right side of these images is baby Nanette Wilma (so named Wilma after the babies father William...
Continue readingJpg of original order for adoption, images from Bethesda unmarried mothers home.
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My first adoption document I have. Please note a second message will be sent with more images and documents. The image of the woman with two babies...
Continue readingLiving with Adoption: A Quest for Hope, Healing and Happiness
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Issues with living with adoption as an adopted person
Continue readingMedical Records with WA's red triangle adoption secred code and morphine use
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Personal documents - medical records - shows morphine use that almost killed baby and secret markings for adoption prospects in WA - red triangle and...
Continue readingOriginal Consent WA 1979 Includes father's details
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2 of 2 Original document includes fathers name which was omitted from birth records. Intimidatory text and threats of fine or action if child was...
Continue readingParallels between historical domestic and contemporary intercountry adoption
Academic Works
The article describes the parallels between the inherent malpractice and abuse in historic Forced Adoption and contemporary Intercountry Adoption. It...
Continue readingProhibited Publications "Contraceptive Technique"
Correspondence
This book, which was specifically written for the medical profession, was banned in Australia until the 1960s even though it draws on 20 years of...
Continue readingJpg of original order for adoption, images from Bethesda unmarried mothers home.
Institution documents
This is the original document sent to my parents
Continue readingLetter from Director Bundaberg Base Hospital to Mr Grahame Zerk
Correspondence
VD test on mothers letter admitting to keeping mothers against their will in hospitals until test show negative
Continue readingMatron and Helper Bethesda 1950
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Significance of document Matron of Bethesda Unmarried Mothers Home in Sydney.
Continue readingNews article Baby Scandal Inquiry demand
Newspaper article
Calls for Forced adoption Inquiry
Continue readingOriginal Revocation of Consent to Adoption Legally Completed and Refused
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Original of revocation legally filled in - refused by child welfare (WA) - was too late and would not give me information for hand delivery by myself...
Continue readingPoem Rachael (Tracy)
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Disabled babies made Forgotten Australians and mothers lied to.
Continue readingRelinquishment and abjection: A semanalysis of the meaning of losing a baby to adoption. PhD Thesis
Academic Works
A seminal work in adoption research, this was the first doctoral thesis in Australia to address the issue of the loss of a baby to adoption from the...
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