Coerced adoption: Salvation Army launches review of maternity homes that housed unwed mothers

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Excerpts

The Salvation Army says it is conducting an internal review into its historic maternity homes, just as a retired Calgary judge — who was once a high-ranking child welfare worker in the city — has come forward and corroborated some of the claims mothers have recently made about coercive adoption practices directed at unmarried mothers decades ago. ‘These people thought …

Adoption Relinquishment

Adoptionland NewsAdoption, Agency Complaints, Excerpts

Pregnant and Considering Adoption? What The Adoption Agencies Will Not Tell You About Adoption Relinquishment If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and are considering becoming a birthmother and making an adoption plan there are some things you should know about first- as in BEFORE you contact an adoption agency! Adoption relinquishment is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. …

Things I Wish I Knew Before Adoption Entered my Life

Adoptionland NewsAdoption, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Rights

This Grown in My Heart Adoption Carnival Topic was supposed to be “10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was Touched By Adoption”, but I can’t use the feel good wording of “touched”. I was not touched by adoption, it’s more like torched, trampled, traumatized, terrorized, tortured and torn apart by adoption. Overall, I feel like I allowed the …

Born Scared: When Anxiety was Created in the Womb, at Birth, or in Prior Lifetimes, and How Finding the Cause Leads to the Cure

Adoptionland NewsAdoption, Excerpts

For those who feel as if they came into this world afraid, or whose child is fearful for no discernible reason and ask, “Why do I have this? Why is it happening to me or my child?” Born Scared provides answers. Through the use of fascinating case stories, hypnotherapist, Julia Ingram, demonstrates that when clients are prompted to go to …