A Mother’s Love: Creating Gracie’s Bill

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A mother’s love, loss and determination has greatly impacted social awareness and created organizations such as MADD, founded by Cindy Lightner, and the well-known Amber Alert system, which Donna Norris created. The power of another mother’s love also created the Make a Wish Foundation. All of these women, and others such as the parents in Sandy Hook, turned the loss …

Babies for sale on Facebook

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PETALING JAYA: Babies are now available for sale through Facebook. Checks by the Sun showed more than 600,000 hits through Google which displayed both open and closed Facebook pages with details such as infants’ age, gender, and health. Potential adopters are provided with details of the mother’s pregnancy stage, and, based on a case-by-case basis, her monetary needs until post-delivery, …

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The Forgotten Fathers

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The trauma of forced adoptions for mothers is well documented but the impact on fathers is not. How do fathers fare when babies are adopted out? They can be the forgotten characters in the story. with Ellen Fanning on Radio abc For radio interview of Adoptionland contributor, Cameron Horn listen here. Australian fathers invited to be interviewed: www.birthfathers.unsw.edu.au or visit …

Outrage over child models used to ‘sell’ adoptee children from broken homes

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Children offered for adoption are being represented as photogenic child models with attractive personalities in a controversial internet advertising campaign run by a NSW government-funded charity. The marketing campaign by Barnardos has infuriated an adult adoptees support group which claims it is akin to an online sale of children and misrepresents the character and looks of potential adoptees. The web …

My illegal adoption was kept secret for nearly FIVE decades

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Theresa Tinggal reckons the way she was handed over to Kathleen and husband Jimmy – the man she called Dad – was a form of child trafficking For nearly five decades Theresa Tinggal felt like the odd one out in her ­family – but had no idea why, reveals the Sunday People. Then a remark by an uncle led to …