Demanding Accountability
This report from Victorian Law Reform Commission has been lodged with Victorian Government.
We encourage mothers to read this report and to discuss it’s implication if made into legislation for all future mothers and children.
It was tabeled last week after being put together by and for the adoption community.
VLRC_Adoption_Report (16MB pdf)
They denied me the beating of your little heart
Your first breathe
The feeling of your warm perfect little fingers
The right to count your toes
My breasts denied the right to nourish you
My eyes to watch you grow
My legs to run with you
My arms to hold you close
My face to see your smiling eyes
(Music)
But they failed to see our invisible cord
Attached to my heart
They failed to see our
Invisible cord
Attached to my heart
I am your Mother
You are my child
My love is yours always
You will always be mine
Dear Adoption,
They told her she couldn’t raise me. They told her it would be wrong to keep me.
Who could know that? How could they say those things? She would eventually succumb to the pressure and sign me away. Sign herself away from me. The accountability for what was lost falls on her and them but they will not suffer the punishment and sorrow she will endure.
At Victoria Park Marley Street, Sale in Gippsland Victoria. Australia.
This Memorial and permanent Monument of Cherished Mother and Child was Officially unveiled by The Hon Darren Chester MP Federal Member of Gippsland, on behalf of MOTHERHOOD. A representative of the Mayor of Wellington, and Wellington Shire Council opened this most moving event.
This beautiful memorial was launched on behalf of all mothers many of who are no longer with us.
Mothers together enjoying the launching of the Historical Memorial to Cherish Mother and Child 17/03/2017 with Paddy criminologist and Nilmini her associate.
