New Adoptionland Youtube Channel

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Announcing a new Youtube channel in an effort by the Adoption Truth & Transparency Worldwide Information Network (ATTWIN) founders intended to protect local and global families from the crisis of adoption trafficking. You will want to know why domestic, late-discovery, international, and transracial adult adoptees believe politics and religion should remain separate in governments. Adult adoptees from Europe, America, Asia, …

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Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence

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“The era of closed adoption is not behind us yet, not by a long shot, however that urgently needs to change.” A team of scholars says the legal practice of closed adoption raised “disconnected” people and is a form of violence. The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming …

Inquiry into postwar adoption policies can start healing process

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Hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies simply because of their marital status. Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments funded draconian adoption policies that harmed unmarried mothers across Canada. This is being referred to by scholars as the “adoption mandate” or the “Baby Scoop …

Mothers forced to give up children for adoption deserve apology

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It took months to piece together last night’s story about women who were forced to give up their children for adoption during the baby boomer years. I spoke to dozens of mothers who had their babies taken from them. Most are still too traumatised to consider sharing their stories publicly, and Debra Harris should be applauded for having the courage …