tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post1958591802222373277..comments2024-03-27T20:48:39.389-04:00Comments on [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: Adoption: Aussies and USLorraine Duskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-55510007202635181982011-05-14T16:49:25.187-04:002011-05-14T16:49:25.187-04:00Jane,
Good article I must say that searching all ...Jane,<br /><br />Good article I must say that searching all over the world fir a baby will never stop until those that just have to have a baby get it. Sadly so many don't and of course greed and need lead those who think they can take a baby and make it theirs. A baby grows up and wants to know who their mother is it is a human need to know the truth.<br /><br />Ps the pictures are cuteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-55047154640118481552011-05-12T10:36:08.840-04:002011-05-12T10:36:08.840-04:00Rabbit-Proof Fence is one of my favorite all-time ...Rabbit-Proof Fence is one of my favorite all-time anti-adoption, pro mother's love, pro adoptee return to mother movie! <br /><br />Bring hankies.Lorraine Duskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-26442845926963163632011-05-12T09:43:02.396-04:002011-05-12T09:43:02.396-04:00Our country has a lopsided view of adoption. I’m f...Our country has a lopsided view of adoption. I’m frustrated by the ‘cotton ball world’ picture that the media and government present of adoption. And I appreciate the excellent job FMF does of identifying many of those lopsided views, why they’re lopsided and what it means for those involved with adoption.<br /><br />Last year I met a social worker from Belgium, where the state handles adoptions, who told me that domestic adoptions are in the single digits and that they work to support mothers so they can raise their children. There are instances when a child is abused or the parents are addicted to drugs or alcohol, where children are placed in foster homes but parental rights and visits are maintained. Intercountry adoptions still take place but are limited. I don’t know what number equates to limited but she was keenly aware of the child trafficking problems. What impressed me was her recognition of the incongruity of allowing intercountry adoption and at the same time working to end domestic adoption.<br /><br />I don’t know what the outcome will be for Belgium on that front but awareness is an important step to taking action, and in a country where the state handles adoption it seems hopeful that intercountry adoption too, will come to an end.Jeaninehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10915148591163004010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-66274048539598649922011-05-11T22:22:24.487-04:002011-05-11T22:22:24.487-04:00It is my firm belief that educated nations of the ...It is my firm belief that educated nations of the world need to lead the charge in the negating of any adoption that includes any monetary payment, for or after, adoption oriented. That we need to lead the world in the ending of adoption as a practice for obtaining a baby....<br /><br />Maybe then, since there is not way social services is going to stop taking children, those children that actually do need homes will get them.... from people that really do want to help and that are able to truly open their hearts and homes and lives to the children. Maybe then guardianship would finally be accepted as the norm rather than adoption.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815710859859029536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-47774549712003969142011-05-11T20:55:12.455-04:002011-05-11T20:55:12.455-04:00We hope Evelyn's closing words come to pass, b...We hope Evelyn's closing words come to pass, but first we have the Inquiry into forced adoptions to get through and then the results of that, which we hope will be an apology.<br />The story of the aboriginal children is of course more complex than it appears and some of it tied up in different standards of child care and sexual and other abuse.It doesn't get any better.<br />Please note that these first Australians like to be called aboriginal and not aborigines.Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17421069895155350144noreply@blogger.com