Our Dirty Adoption Secret
By Emily Wolfinger The Federal Government wants to give forced adoption victims an apology, but seems very keen to prevent the public finding out exactly what the apology is for, writes Emily Wolfinger...
View ArticleOrigins-USA urges keeping Haitian orphans with their families
By Karen Ciandella The Adoption Community continues to come forward with position papers regarding adoptions in Haiti. Origins-USA is a national, non-profit organization working to protect the natural...
View ArticleChildren’s Aid Society workers should be reined in, critics say
By Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Friday, June 12, 2009 They are charged with the most essential of duties: protecting vulnerable children from abuse and neglect. They will intervene in the...
View ArticleYukon to unseal adoption files
- CBC News The Yukon government is getting ready to open up adoption records it has kept secret for decades, making it easier for adopted children and their birth parents to find each other. Parents...
View ArticleUnmarried Mums Get State Apology
DANIEL EMERSON, The West Australian September 1, 2010, 6:32 am The State’s apology to unmarried mothers illegally separated from their babies under harsh adoption practices is set to happen within...
View ArticleAdoption records spell heartbreak and happiness
May 31, 2010 Living Reporter Nicole Baut The past year has been emotional for many adults who were adopted in Ontario, and for their parents, both biological and adoptive. On June 1, 2009, Ontario...
View ArticleNanaimo-born woman’s search for sperm-donor dad goes to court
Born through artificial insemination, Olivia Pratten is fighting to have the Adoption Act declared unconstitutional so that children conceived by sperm donors can find out who their father is. Olivia...
View ArticleWA Parliament apologises to mothers forced to give up babies
Updated Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:01pm AEDT The West Australian Parliament has formally apologised to the unmarried women who were pressured to adopt out their babies between the 1940s and 1980s. More than...
View ArticleOnt. Ombudsman Probes Children’s Aid Society
The provincial ombudsman will now be able to look into any complaints about a cash-strapped Children’s Aid Society in southwestern Ontario. Andre Marin’s office said the ombudsman has jurisdiction...
View ArticleExhibit features babies unwed mothers gave up
GRIMSBY — The Grimsby Public Art Gallery is showcasing an installation that honours the lives of unwed mothers and the babies they gave up in the early and mid 20th century. Foundling, by Michele...
View ArticleSpanish nun accused of stealing babies in another forced adoption scandal
By Cristina Fuentes-Cantillana MADRID — An elderly Spanish nun appeared in court on Thursday to face charges of stealing babies, after claims by hundreds of women that their infants were taken from...
View Article‘These women didn’t know their options’: Ontario urged to consider inquiry...
By: Kathryn Blaze Carlson Ontario’s NDP urged the Dalton McGuinty government Wednesday to look at launching an inquiry into the province’s historic adoption practices in the wake of accusations from...
View ArticlePresbyterians to probe maternity homes in wake of Post forced adoption...
By: Kathryn Blaze Carlson The Presbyterian Church in Canada has launched an internal review of its historic maternity home practices, becoming the third church to do so since the National Post last...
View ArticleUnited Church archives ground zero in search for evidence of forced adoptions
By: Kathryn Blaze Carlson The 4,500-square-foot vault is a temperature-controlled former television studio, maintained at a precise 18 C with a relative humidity of 30%. The shelved boxes — all 23,000...
View ArticleUnited Church of Canada to hold mirror to its role in forced adoptions as...
By: Kathryn Blaze Carlson The United Church of Canada is poised to strike a special task force dedicated to uncovering historic forced adoption practices, just as a national group prepares for an...
View Article‘It was so painful’: Forced-adoptions conference calls for federal inquiry
By: Sarah Boesveld For Bev Colasimone MacDonald, it was a comfort to be in the same room with several other mothers who surrendered their children to Canadian maternity homes decades ago. But even so,...
View ArticleAustralian PM apologizes for forced adoptions
By Rod McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government...
View ArticleAdoptees can find mom, but not dad
By: Nicole Baute When Ontario opened its adoption records on June 1, adult adoptees yearning for information about their birth parents applied in droves. When Ontario opened its adoption records on...
View ArticleAction on past forced adoption policies
The National Apology for past forced adoption practices is taking place in Canberra today. This will be a very important day for mothers, fathers, adoptees, grandparents and families. These practices...
View ArticleGillard delivers apology to victims of forced adoption
By: ABC.net Prime Minister Julia Gillard has delivered a national apology to victims of forced adoption practices that were in place in Australia from the late 1950s to the 1970s. More than 800 people...
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