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 […]
Adoptees can find mom, but not dad
By: Nicole Baute When Ontario opened its adoption records on June 1, adult adoptees yearning for information about their birth parents applied in droves. 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 […]