The July 2021 Mothers Survey Of CURRENT FORCED ADOPTIONS
In an effort to put an argument to the UK 2021 Social Care Review TakenUK.com and I as an Adoptee activist decided to create some informational pushback supportive of the “Current Forced Adoption” trends in the UK.
You will note if you follow social care trends in the UK that the politicians in the UK in 2021 have cleverly split “Forced Adoptions” into those that were “Historic” and only examined those at select committee level as abuses on women — usually mother’s in distress from 1949–1976 .
That Select Committee as a human rights enquiry was steered by both a Labour Chair Harriet Harman, and Tory members on it, as a Joint Committee of Human Rights. It never resulted in a full apology to women affected in history neither did the Committee include the abusive ways the State has been operating from 2000 onward with various political parties creating frameworks to incentivize social engineering problems away via Adoption practices.
“Taken” and I were both trying to show in different ways that Adoption is cruel often .. More than cruel too — it is often processed at lower courts on low bar levels of proof that birth family are abusive or are a real problem to a child’s care in the future.
Adoption as frequent option would not survive higher levels of proof found in higher courts since “reasonable doubt” when applied would not be crossed as a higher threshold it is often argued (Ian Joseph Professor Of Law)
As if to nail at least some of these points down more, journalist Natasha Phillips @SobukiRa on Twitter has with others recently completed a 2023 qualitative piece of examining work showing mothers and birth family are under attack by the UK State. This is a more widespread experience than main media have been reporting on since family courts have “gags” on them via use of the Children’s Act 1989
The results are in the new work clear to see , very painful to read and consider.
For the record and reference I decided to place here the bar charts of the 2021 Birth Mother’s survey which Taken and I used in the Social Care Review with two papers sent in for argument against Adoptions and arguments for creating more resource namely early intervention help for birth family lives which the Tories had dried up in the years 2012 (Cameron as Prime minister) .
Money intended for birth family support appears to have been swapped over from early interventions instead to support more Adoptions with a fund (The Adoption Support Fund) instituted in 2015. That fund is now running at £200m as support for parenting skills for Adopters, and therapy for kids many of which are aggressive and recalcitrant Adoptees with high emotional disruption rates (see 2017 BBC and Adoption UK Survey on Issuu) …
The over-selling of Adoption in the UK is still happening and there are now more mixed dynamics evolved, with even some UK Adoptees who wanted an apology for “Forced Historic Adoptions” supporting, or who are linked to, Adoption agencies. One is the Adult Adoptee Movement and another is SAAM and both appear to be linked to Adoption UK for promo support. It’s unclear whether they support Current Forced Adoption practices or not ..
It’s a curious mixed paradoxical synergy with some UK Adoptees not realising they really should be pushing for reform and Guardianship Orders as the better non severing ID option, as opposed to by default, appearing to help along Current Forced Adoptions as cruel as some are.
For the record and quick reference here are the bar charts of 2021 of the 51 Birth Mothers (mostly current) Forced Adoptions..There is likely to be more work done on new surveys so that some mothers can be properly included in the CURRENT Forced Adoption issues others appear blind to.
