Tag: adoption Aotearoa
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Adoption Reunion fantasy
When I was in my early to mid twenties and studying, I just happened upon a book in the educational library about adoption reunions. I have no idea what it was called. This is going back thirty plus years now. It was the first book I had ever seen read about adoption. I took it…
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I am very good at acting normal
Why did I not rebel, sneak out, sleep with boys, smoke, drink and do drugs? Why did I have good friends. Why did I hardly drink much. Why did I decide at the age of 11, that I would never ever smoke after seeing that black tarred slice of a smokers lung preserved in glass…
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I have to believe
I have to believe my mummy saw me, held me, loved me and said goodbye. I have to. I can see her holding me, my tiny hand is wrapped around one of her fingers. She is gazing down at me, she thinks I am beautiful. My little shock of wavy black hair, my porcelain white…
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The sexually abused adoptee
I wonder, if, when my Mummy left me in the care of the hospital, and ultimately the social workers who worked for The Department of Social Welfare – Government run department, who had assured her, her baby would be going to only the best of homes, she would have ever have dreamed she was actually…
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Adoption 1960’s and 70’s
Newspapers Press 10 February 1979 Page 7: Article on Adoption “Jigsaw” – 1979 – – I was 14 years old – my adopters would have been reading these articles in the newspapers, they always read the newspapers. My female adopter, (I cannot remember my male adopter ever saying one word to me his whole life…
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I wish I’d grown up with my sister
I think my sister is dying. Her health is poor and deteriorating. She is at least 16 years older than me, born to my mother from her first marriage. My mother was widowed in her 30’s with five children, the youngest just a baby. Can you imagine how awful and sad that would have been?…
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I have no words…
An article from 1977 , regarding lack of children available for adoption. The powers that be – the Legal so called profession and THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPT – those in ‘charge’ of the welfare of our children – bemoaning the fact that more women are keeping their babies and there are not enough children available…
Adoption is No Fairytale 