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Jan Lawden was 15 when she was sent to St Monica's with her newborn baby. She spent decades searching for her boy Julian adopted in 1968. In 2025 she learnt he had died in his twenties. She would like to access info on his life
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Informed Consent 💉💉💊💊 retweeted
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A collaborative paper from Pause – a national charity that works with women who’ve had more than one child removed from their care – and universities of Birmingham & Edinburgh, explored the enduring impact on parents once a child has
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just 500 yards from where her beloved son was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.
The UK Government has ignored such experiences and has not yet issued a formal, unqualified apology to victims of historical #ForcedAdoption in England.
Judith’s experience was not an
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Jun 13
“Historic #ForcedAdoption accounted for at the coercive removal of around 185,000
unmarried mothers from their children between 1949 and 1976 and their placement with new parents., Why?
#BecauseTheyCould
#AbuseOfPower
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Dear @Keir_Starmer
Today is #HumanRightsDay. You built your career defending human rights
yet adoptees still live under the harshest, most irreversible order in UK law.
No review. No appeal. No identity.
It’s time to investigate adoption as a human rights violation. @UN
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Jun 12
An Italian court has approved the adoption of a Ukrainian teenager who was evacuated to the country, sparking an international dispute.
#adoption #ukrainianchildren #illegaladoption #forcedadoption #stolenchildren
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Jun 11
As one of these 350,000 women, I have zero faith this will happen in my lifetime. Governments don't have to offer reparations to dead people. #Birthmother #Adoption #Adoptionreform #forcedadoption #babyscoopera
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Some babies born with disabilities were denied medical help because they were judged unadoptable, as ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker reports. #adoption #forcedadoption #birthmothers #justiceforsurvivors
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Unwed Canadian women forced to give up their babies in the decades after the Second World War until the early 1980s. They are waiting for an apology. #adoption #forcedadoption #birthmothers #stolenchildren #justiceforsurvivors
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Paula was only 17 years old and couldn’t bear to give her previous son away
“please God” she asked “let me find him one day”
#ForcedAdoption
@longlostfamily
Catch up on #VirginMediaPlayer Episode - Tue 9th June
"Knowing that he has always been loved. For me, that's everything."
Paula was just 17 when she gave birth to a son she couldn’t keep. Decades later, she’s still hoping to find him. ❤️
Long Lost Family | Tonight at 9pm on Virgin Media PLAY and Virgin Media One 📺
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..”any apology will come too late for my birth mother, and cannot undo the loss we both endured. For many adoptees, myself included, dealing with that loss is a lifelong process…”
#ForcedAdoption
#AdoptionStories
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“My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending” theguardian.com/society/2026…
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MP, Senator is calling for the Canadian government to apologize for its role in supporting the practice of forced adoptions. #adoption #forcedadoption #birthmothers #adopteevoices #stolenchildren
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Churches acknowledge suffering of forced adoptions, but won’t apologize. #adoption #forcedadoption #stolenchildren #birthmothers nltimes.nl/2026/05/18/church…
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May 13
ITV News has heard heartbreaking testimony from survivors about the racism they endured, and how it has affected their whole lives. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #forcedadoption #racism
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