Tag: closed adoptee

• Free at last

  ‘Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty I am free at last ‘ Martin Luther King Jnr. It has taken a while, and I may not feel this good all the time, but thank God Almighty I am free at last. I have cut myself off from all but a handful of my…

  Private Person

  March 26, 2023

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  adoptee, Adoptee estrangement, adoption, adoption crime, adoption estrangement, adoption issues, adoption trauma, closed adoptee, closed adoption, family estrangement

• 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…

  Private Person

  March 26, 2023

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  adoption, adoption Aotearoa, adoption attitudes, adoption crime, adoption laws, adoption NZ, adoption reform, adoption trauma, closed adoptee, closed adoption

• 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