Adoption 'Counseling'
and the Violation of
Single Mothers' Parental Rights and Human Rights
Canada is known
world-wide as being a tolerant nation where human rights
are respected. What are not widely known are the human
rights violations perpetrated on the most vulnerable
of its citizens: First
Nations and Doukhobor
children taken by force from their families and placed
into residential
schools, Quebec orphans
who endured medical experiments, sterilization
of people deemed to have mental disabilities in
Alberta
and B.C.,
and the effort to "solve" the "problem
of unwed motherhood" via forced-surrender
of infants for adoption.
These are the stories
of mothers separated from their children by adoption
- children they wanted to keep but were forced or
coerced to surrender,
NOT because they were proven unfit or abusive but because
they were single ("unwed"), young, or otherwise
vulnerable to exploitation by the adoption
industry.
If
you are a mother who wanted to keep your baby but were
separated from your child by adoption, please send
us your story, including what city it took place
in and the name of the agency, hospital or other organization
that took your infant or coerced
you to surrender. Adoptees are invited to submit their
own personal stories as well.
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