Updated Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:01pm AEDT The West Australian Parliament has formally apologised to the unmarried women who were pressured to adopt out their babies between the 1940s and 1980s. More than 100 people packed the public gallery to witness the apology and applauded the Premier when he finished his speech. Colin Barnett acknowledged […]
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Nanaimo-born woman’s search for sperm-donor dad goes to court
Born through artificial insemination, Olivia Pratten is fighting to have the Adoption Act declared unconstitutional so that children conceived by sperm donors can find out who their father is. Olivia Pratten’s battle to learn the identity of her biological father — an anonymous sperm donor — went to court Monday with her lawyer arguing she […]
Adoption records spell heartbreak and happiness
May 31, 2010 Living Reporter Nicole Baut The past year has been emotional for many adults who were adopted in Ontario, and for their parents, both biological and adoptive. On June 1, 2009, Ontario opened its adoption records, after a 30-year fight launched by members of the adoption community. Adult adoptees and biological mothers could […]
Unmarried Mums Get State Apology
DANIEL EMERSON, The West Australian September 1, 2010, 6:32 am The State’s apology to unmarried mothers illegally separated from their babies under harsh adoption practices is set to happen within weeks. WA is to become the first State or Federal government worldwide to admit hospital and welfare authorities were wrong to immediately separate mothers from […]
Yukon to unseal adoption files
– CBC News The Yukon government is getting ready to open up adoption records it has kept secret for decades, making it easier for adopted children and their birth parents to find each other. Parents or adopted children who want their adoption files kept confidential have until the end of April to make that request. […]
Children’s Aid Society workers should be reined in, critics say
By Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Friday, June 12, 2009 They are charged with the most essential of duties: protecting vulnerable children from abuse and neglect. They will intervene in the lives of roughly 200,000 Canadian children this year. For most of us, they are generally unseen, save for occasional mentions in news reports, when […]
Origins-USA urges keeping Haitian orphans with their families
By Karen Ciandella The Adoption Community continues to come forward with position papers regarding adoptions in Haiti. Origins-USA is a national, non-profit organization working to protect the natural rights of mothers to nurture their children. Origins-USA released the following position statement this week: Origins-USA Urges Keeping Haitian Orphans with Their Families Many news stories have […]
Our Dirty Adoption Secret
By Emily Wolfinger The Federal Government wants to give forced adoption victims an apology, but seems very keen to prevent the public finding out exactly what the apology is for, writes Emily Wolfinger During a meeting at Minister for Families Jenny Macklin’s Canberra office on 27 August, the offer of an apology to an estimated […]
International adoption: A big fix brings dramatic decline
By Scott Baldauf in Johannesburg, South Africa; Sarah E. Burton in Beijing; Ezra Fieser in Guatemala City; Kathie Klarreich in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Fred Weir in Moscow When Silvia Sebac’s birth mother made the five-hour bus ride through the mountainous countryside to leave her at an orphanage in Guatemala City, the infant had every prospect […]
Lost children: Why they should stay in Haiti
The high price of foreign adoption is corrupting – meaning parents may be getting `paper orphans’ By Nicole Baute There is no fool like the one who wants to be fooled. Professor David Smolin wrote those words in 2005 referring to adoptive parents in the Western world. Eager to believe they are saving orphaned children […]