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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 …
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 …
As tourism has boomed in Bali, it has had a strange side-effect, doubling the number of orphanages on the island in 20 years. Tourists’ donations keep the orphanages going – but some are effectively rackets, exploiting children and holidaymakers alike. I met Pam and Samantha, an Australian mother and daughter who had traveled all the way from Perth, with a …
Aboriginal grandmothers(link is external) have protested to Australian politicians about the increasing removal of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed in homes or with foster families, many of them non-Indigenous. Grandmothers were among about 100 Indigenous protesters who marched from the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra to parliament house on Friday, 13 February. In 2008, then [Labor] prime minister, Kevin …
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 …