Tag: adoption law reform

• 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…

  Private Person

  March 31, 2023

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  adoptee, adoptee family, adoptee feelings, adoptees, adoption, adoption and family, adoption Aotearoa, adoption estrangement, adoption law reform, adoption life, adoption reunion, adoption trauma, closed adoption, closed adoption damage, NZ adoption

• Adoptee Identity

  I was going to start this piece with the sentence “This is who I am if I should die ” and then write my “Name at Birth”, for all my following generations to be able to google. If the law will not allow me to use my identity now, reclaim it, then I will put…

  Private Person

  March 26, 2023

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  adoption, adoption law reform, adoption laws, closed adoption, identity issues, identity theft, injustice, Jacquline Mary HART, legal crime, legal identity theft, lost identity, NZ adoption, true identity, two birth certificates

• Adoptees have no rights

  When you are an adult adoptee you have no rights to your own authentic identity. The law made, in my country, in 1955, sealed my fate. Many a closed adoptee has died with no way of reversing their adoptions or reclaiming their authentic identities. Did they never expect us to grow up? To want anything…

  Private Person

  March 26, 2023

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  adoptee, adoptee injustice, adoptee laws, adoptee rights, adoption, adoption law reform, closed adoptee, closed adoption