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Gill Roberts's avatar

Bethany Grey Lynn - my mother cared for me for 10 days. She knew I had been 'allocated'. What that meant was at some stage she would come from the work room to feed me and I would be gone. Time and day unknown. The cruelty of this still takes my breath away.

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Greg Gentry's avatar

“Allocated.” Yes. What a chillingly-accurate word. Already tagged for someone else. This was haunting language.

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Dr Barbara Sumner's avatar

In some other situations, this would be called grooming and trafficking. Unless it's in the process of acquiring a child.

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Greg Gentry's avatar

Yes. The collective unacknowledged societal guilt is staggering. I wish I could say it was a case of people just not “knowing”.

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Dr Barbara Sumner's avatar

I agree. I think there is a deep level of wilful ignorance, propped up by networked gaslighting. I certainly found that when I was sending out Official Information Requests to multiple government departments while doing my PhD research.

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Darla's avatar

Thank you for saying adoption is not fate. I’ve always felt that.

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Sharyn White's avatar

The weird dynamics of the Franken-family! Another variation of this maladaptive behaviour is when the male adopter is the reason there is infertility - the cause of both his own cuckolding, and the quiet, bitter, seething martyrdom of his wife.

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Kristina's avatar

Really looking forward to digging in to this but also want to say - a different perspective - she did it for him - he wanted a son - she wanted not to adopt / they “settled” on me! And she tried to kill me. Wow is this stuff rich with research material or what??

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