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Lisa's avatar

Oh gosh yes ! Everything about this makes me cross ! I’ll go and breathe then write a proper response, in the meantime, thank you !

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Sarah Wilshaw-Sparkes's avatar

Agree! I read this over breakfast and got indigestion. There's something about inequity that wrecks my guts.

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Dr Barbara Sumner's avatar

Hope your indigestion has improved

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Lisa's avatar

Spot on - it is the inequity.

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Diem Lafortune's avatar

I was a woke activist when I 1st applied in 1974 - when I reached age of majority. They didn't like my attitude - I refused to let them talk to me like a child. They put me on the bottom of the pile for another 23 yrs. And they wonder why we hate them and label THEM sociopaths. I set across from a 22 yr-old MSW grad in 1998 while she read files I wasn't allowed to see. If I wasn't a mature adult I would have jumped across the table and rang her neck!!!!

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Niki Carter's avatar

It is disappointing that so many nations who signed the UN charter for the rights of the child utterly ignore what they pledged.

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Colleen Palmer's avatar

For myself....all i can say is thank goodness for DNA, Ancestry and My Heritage or I would have still had missing parts. It is only possible to understand adoption if one is an adoptee.

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