Britain is to join Australia in issuing an official apology for the “shameful” export of tens of thousands of children to Commonwealth countries with the promise of a better life, only for many of them to end up abused and neglected. By Richard Alleyne In what Ed Balls, the children secretary, described as “stain on […]
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Adoptees can find Mom, but not Dad
From the Toronto Star By Nicole Baute December 10, 2009 When Ontario opened its adoption records on June 1, adult adoptees yearning for information about their birth parents applied in droves. But as the replies came back, it became clear something was missing: the names of their fathers. Out of all 250,000 Ontario adoption registrations, […]
Building a Baby, With Few Ground Rules
From the New York Times by STEPHANIE SAUL Unable to have a baby of her own, Amy Kehoe became her own general contractor to manufacture one. For Ms. Kehoe and her husband, Scott, the idea seemed like their best hope after years of infertility. Working mostly over the Internet, Ms. Kehoe handpicked the egg donor, […]
Ontario Opens its Old Adoption Records – Surprise! No Dads!
From Men’s News Daily By Robert Franklin, Esq. Saturday, December 19, 2009 Back on June 1st of this year, the province of Ontario opened all its old adoption records so that adoptees could locate their birth parents if they wanted. Read about it here (Toronto Star, 12/10/09). And, to no one’s great surprise, a lot […]
Taking babies from mothers in prison punishes the children
By Linda Korbin / straight.com The Alouette Correctional Centre, located in the Fraser Valley, is the only separate women’s prison in B.C. and is where more than 150 women are serving time or awaiting trial. Most have been jailed for relatively minor offences, and three-quarters of them serve sentences of less than three months. Until […]
First mothers; Being reunited has brought with it both indescribable happiness and terrible grief
Lara Bradley/The Sudbury Star Lifestyles – Monday, November 20, 2006 Editor’s note: This is the second part of the First Mothers. The first part ran last Monday. A reunion with their babies was a long time in coming. Both Esther Tardif and Mary (she didn’t want to give her name on the grounds that it […]
First Mothers
The emotional toil and punishment young girls went through when they became pregnant By Lara Bradley/The Sudbury Star Lifestyles – Monday, November 13, 2006 They never “gave up” their babies. They surrendered them. Between the two expressions is a gaping hole of difference. November is adoption awareness month. For birth mothers, or first mothers as […]